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...languishing in the midst of the press. Four determined looking Radcliffe girls were badgering a defenseless and bewildered football player into a neutral corner. And Vag doggedly circled the outskirts of the mob, looking for a weak spot to assail. Around him reared the walls of the edifice Mr. Woolworth had built of all the little nickels and times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/14/1940 | See Source »

...Married. Woolworth Donahue, 27. "most eligible U. S. bachelor," grandson of 5-&-10?-store Founder Frank Winfield Woolworth; and Gretchen Wilson Hearst 26, divorced wife of Son John Randolph Hearst; in Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...haired Catherine McNelis, then an advertising agent in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., persuaded F. W. Woolworth Co. to market a group of 10? magazines specially edited for the dime-store trade. Miss McNelis organized Tower Magazines, Inc., soon had seven magazines with a total circulation of some 900,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Circulation Cheater | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...Austro-Hungarian Empire by Emperor Franz Josef, and thereafter showed more interest in collecting art than in making steel. At 60 he divorced his Baroness and married a Berlin mannequin, who was later severely injured in the motor accident in which Prince Serge Mdivani, ex-husband of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton, was killed. The youngest, August Jr., became embittered at his father and had visions of founding an industrial empire of his own. Father August ran Son August into bankruptcy, and the son retaliated by contributing to the funds of striking workers at his father's plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Daddy's End | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...public notice column of the New York Herald Tribune appeared three lines: "I am no longer responsible for any debts incurred by my wife. . . ." It was signed by Franklin Laws Hutton, father of Woolworth Heiress Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, concerned his second wife, Irene Curley Bodde Hutton. Meanwhile, back to the U. S. for a home-made divorce came Daughter Barbara and her son Lance, whose ship companions included legally separated Husband Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and Barbara's rumored choice for a third husband, Robert Sweeny, amateur golfer & investment broker. On the dock Countess Barbara was greeted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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