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...seat four new men on the company's seven-man board, and to put through a management survey of Kress to see how the chain can be made aggressive again. R. H. Kress opposed the management survey, charged that the revolt was a maneuver by competing F. W. Woolworth to take over Kress, since Foundation Trustee Helm is also a Woolworth director and had suggested a merger. This charge so piqued Helm that he resigned from the foundation...
Pick of the Quick. Angel of the Albright is a peppery Buffalo booster, Woolworth Heir and Banker Seymour H. Knox, who, back in the 1930s, captained his home-town East Aurora polo team in international matches. Putting up $100,000 in 1939 to launch the Contemporary Room, "Shorty" Knox, who had previously boasted little more than one lone Utrillo, was soon head over heels in love with modern art. In the last eleven years, Yaleman ('20) Knox has donated 75 paintings and sculptures, of which more than half are products of the current decade...
...Woolworth Hour (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). The looth broadcast...
...Woolworth Hour (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). With Percy Faith, Doretta Morrow, Toni Arden, Ethel Smith...
...Macy & Co. will open its largest branch on Aug. 22, a two-story building with 300,000 sq. ft. of selling space. Nine one-story buildings, housing no stores from Buster Brown Shoes to Woolworth's, will open in September. Underground will run an air-conditioned concourse. Outside there will be parking space for 17,000 cars. Total cost: more than $50 million...