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...late Frank Winfield Woolworth might well have looked back with pride upon the 30-year history of his store chain. From a single unit in Lancaster, Pa., Woolworth stores had multiplied until in that year they numbered 590. Sales had grown to the startling total of $50,000,000 a year. And with possible sites for stores all over the U. S. Mr. Woolworth might well have faced the future with a justified smugness. Yet in 1909 Mr. Woolworth, a devoted worshipper of Napoleon, showed brilliant commercial strategy by opening a store in Liverpool. F. W. Woolworth...
Many a feature-writer has culled extra money by writing of the romance of Mr. Woolworth's rise. Yet there was little romance to it. He was a frugal, practical merchant with a good idea to work on. Success brought him the ailment common to many another U. S. tycoon-a Napoleonic complex. In 1913 this found expression. That year he built for himself a great monument, the Woolworth building, internationally hailed as a "Cathedral of Commerce." On the 24th floor he placed the company's offices. His private office represented a $35,000 departure from frugality...
...executive editor of Tower Publications, magazines published for sale in Woolworth chain stores, was appointed Verne Porter, onetime editor of Cosmopolitan, editor-in-chief of Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions (films), editor-in-chief of Paramount-Famous-Lasky, lately scenario editor in the East of Universal Pictures Corp. His duty: to keep liaison between Editorial Director Hugh Weir and the managing editors of the respective magazines (New Movie, Illustrated Love, Illustrated Detective, Home). ¶ Ten years ago famed Typographer Frederic William Goudy was commissioned by Woman's Home Companion to design a new type face for the magazine...
Died. James Paul Donahue, 45, Manhattan stockbroker, famed roulette player, husband of Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue who with Mrs. Helena W. McCann and Barbara Hutton inherited the estate (some $51,000,000) of the late Frank Winfield Woolworth (5¢ & 10¢ stores); of acute uremia following an attempt at suicide with bichloride of mercury; in Manhattan...
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