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...slender blonde young woman, formerly an American citizen, twice-married, once-divorced. The flashily dressed streetwalker bounced out of court. Shaggy-browed Sir Patrick Hastings, noted British barrister, rose, be to outline the case, that of Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow, née Bar Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth 5?-&-10? fortune, against her husband, Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, who, she claimed, had threatened her bodily harm...
...Princess Babs's" subsequent extravagances in Venice and elsewhere not only made great tabloid copy, but fine indignation material for columnists like Westbrook Pegler, who simmered: "At this writing your correspondent has not yet had time to visit any of the Woolworth 5-and-10? stores to observe the rejoicing. . . . It was pretty hard to keep the girls within bounds last winter when Woolworth's own little Babbie, the darling of the $10-a-week personnel, married the dream prince from Russia in a love match as pure as anything in the matrimonial record of the Goulds...
...five & ten" is now pretty much a misnomer, with Woolworth and Kresge selling items up to $1. But in England "three & six penny'' still has some semblance of accuracy. Woolworth's, which opened its first English store in 1909 and last year had 711 with profit of $32,000,000. no longer adheres to the strict price policy. But its biggest rival, the 228 Marks & Spencer stores which earned just over $8,000,000 in 1937, still does...
Left. By Alexis Zacharie Mdivani, late Georgian husband of Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow; an estate valued at $2,985,908. In 1934 the Woolworth Countess established two trust funds for him totaling $2,251,189, few months later gave him securities worth $625,193. He was killed in 1935 in a motorcar accident in Spain. Under his will his two sisters and surviving brother (Brother Serge was killed in 1936 playing polo near Palm Beach) receive four-fifths, the Countess one-fifth...
...stock along with some real estate to a trio of virtual unknowns for $6,375,000 ($4,000,000 in cash, rest in notes). This trio consisted of two Wall Streeters. Robert Ralph Young and Frank Frederick Kolbe, and Allan Price Kirby, son of one of the F. W. Woolworth Co. founders. Admitting that they were "babes in the woods," the new bosses of the Van Sweringen empire set put to simplify Allegheny's elaborate holding company substructure, have been lost in the woods ever since. Last fall's market crash forced Mr. Kolbe to liquidate his Alleghany...