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Last week the remaining two Babes in the Woods, Allan Price Kirby, son of one of the founders of F. W. Woolworth Co., and Robert Young, onetime partner of Frank Kolbe in Young, Kolbe & Co., were reticent about Mr. Kolbe's departure. All they would say was that part of Mr. Kolbe's share in the syndicate had been bought by Mrs. Young, who is the sister of Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, the remainder by a lawyer "for the personal holding com-pany of an undisclosed individual." While Wall Street ears tingled to talk that this unknown...
...last week, labor in education also made news: ¶ In Manhattan the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, newly formed to promote the Catholic point of view in C. I. O. and A. F. of L. unions, quietly opened a free experimental school for workers in Fordham University's Woolworth Building quarters. To the press rushed Rev. Ignatius Wiley Cox, Fordham professor of ethics and loud foe of birth control and the press, to announce that Fordham was starting "the first attempt to interpret workers' problems by other than Marxian theories." Text for the courses, in which 100 unionists...
...books. If a popular magazine is worth five cents, a novel's reading matter must be markedly superior to justify paying 50 times as much for it. In England the sensationally successful Penguin Books, started two years ago with a capital of $500 and a small order from Woolworth's, selling paper-covered books for sixpence, has sold nearly 10,000,000 books. In the U. S. attempts to sell new books for less than $1 have come to grief in the past, and the newest and biggest cheap book venture, Modern Age Books, offering well-printed, well...
...Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. Minette H. Stahl sued F. W. Woolworth Co. & Donald F. Duncan (top distributors) for $31,304 damages incurred when, during a demonstration, she was hit on the back of the, head by a whirling...
...fired in an economy drive. But the Calder luck came through on schedule-an older salesman retired before Sandy's notice was up and he regained his job. He has justified it ever since, in the beginning by bagging Union's biggest bag account, F. W. Woolworth Co., and lately by lifting the company out of the worst jam in its 68-year history...