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...Manhattan, an unidentified 18-month-old boy in a pink zipper suit turned up in a Woolworth 5-&-10? store, talking his own private language, grabbing merchandise indiscriminately. Because the customers were amused, the management let him alone until he started painting the floor with shoe polish. At the police station, he pulled plugs out of the signal switchboard, nearly wrecked the teletype machine, dined on cheese, jelly sandwiches and milk, went to sleep, awoke and prowled in the basement coal bin, found a sleeping Negro there, kicked him in the face, refused a bath. At the New York Foundling...
...Title to St. Nicholas was lately acquired by Roy Walker, an Ohioan who sold advertising for ten years for Curtis Publishing Co., went into the publishing business for himself. He bought John Martin's Book, later scrapped it. Also he issued a cookbook for distribution in Woolworth stores which has sold phenomenally. Mrs. David Stern offered her financial support to the revived St. Nicholas, but Publisher Walker accepted only her advisory assistance, in an effort to "bring the magazine up to its former standard, so that the new generation of American children may grow up with really first rate...
...Last week's ballyhoo contained the customary information that more dogs (2,837) were entered than ever before, items about a singular creature called the Welsh Corgi, news that dachshunds outnumbered all other entries. Newsreaders, however, were flabbergasted at one new note in the ballyhoo. This was the Woolworth Donahue Cheetah. Before the show opened sports pages contained pictures of the cheetah and its trainer, Publisher Eltinge F. Warner of Field & Stream. When the show began, patrons viewed a cinema which showed the cheetah, by this time almost as legendary as a loup-garou, retrieving duck and pheasant...
...cheetahs are used for hunting antelope. Hooded and chained, carried to the field in carts, they are released within 200 yd. of the game, restrained from eating their prey, when they have killed it, by being offered hot blood in a long-handled ladle. On an African hunting jaunt, Woolworth Donahue caught his cheetah when it was three months old, cured it of rickets by lime injections in its spine. By the time the cheetah recovered, it had developed such a fondness for its owner that Woolworth Donahue brought it back to the U. S. When he told his friends...
Only hunting cheetah in the U. S., the Donahue cheetah has no name, sleeps on his owner's bed or in a kennel. Last week, after helping publicize the dog show, the cheetah failed to return to its normal function, that of publicizing Woolworth Donahue. Instead, left to its own devices in the Donahue boathouse at Palm Beach, it quickly ran away...