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...Tower Magazines (Illustrated Love, Illustrated Detective, Home, New Movie), published solely for sale in Woolworth stores, proved such a smashing success that Kresge & Kress stores followed suit by adopting two magazines published by George T. Delacorte Jr. (Modern Screen, Modern Romances - TIME, Nov. 3). The success was repeated.* Smart publishers then accepted as fact the theory that women who never patronize a newsstand will buy io? love fiction, Hollywood chitchat, etc. where they buy their merchandise...
...Twist to steal, one Clarence Warren, 33, Chicago "tourist," taught a Macaque monkey (the small sort which organ grinders use to collect coins) to pick up and hide small odds & ends from store counters. Clarence Warren named his monkey Clarence. Clarence Macaque and Clarence Warren have been visiting Chicago Woolworth and Kresge stores where well-taught Clarence Macaque shoplifted while the clerks giggled. Last week both Clarences were arrested, jailed...
After hours the 4,000 top-hatted brokers of the London Stock Exchange filled Throgmorton Street well into the evening to continue dealings. New British Woolworth shares were a favorite, and such prominent London groups as the rubbers, home-rails, breweries and artificial silks were all higher. Internationals (mostly Americans) were strong. So were old favorites like Bats (British-American Tobacco), Imps (Imperial Tobacco), the Tinto (Rio Tinto), and the Johnnies (Johannesburg mining shares...
...desk clean, never appearing busy. He has taste. He likes the opera and dis likes tobacco. In both his $1,000,000 Long Branch, N. J. home and his $1,200,000 Paris residence are pipe-organs, tapestries. A link between Mr. Parson and the Founder is Charles Sumner Woolworth, 74, now chairman of the company his brother founded. He lives in Scranton, is seldom in Manhattan except for board meetings...
Under the management of Mr. Parson, Woolworth's stores and sales have in creased steadily. Yet the profit from the U. S. stores has dropped during the past four years, with net income being held at a fairly stable figure only by increased "income from securities owned," "interest received," and "undistributed earnings of subsidiaries." How the increased "in come from securities owned" has bolstered up the Woolworth net is shown in the table below...