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...Prensa's only winner widely known to the U.S. public was in the class of female entertainers: the explosive Spanish gypsy dancer, Carmen Amaya (TIME, Feb. 17, 1941). Hollywood's cavern-mouthed Carmen Miranda came in 20th, famed Dancer Argentinita 37th...
...felt it start to rise, stepped aside, beheld two men ascending in state with $840 in swag, promptly nabbed them. In Oklahoma City, Autoist Russell B. Smith, stopped by two would-be robbers, scared them off by barking at his dashboard receiving set: "Calling all cars, reporting robbery at 37th and Classen...
...Bigelow was right. Gone were the grey, morgue-like walls, the drab showcases, the cloistered darkness of the old store at 37th Street. Instead, large windows, scarcely marred by crossbars, admitted beams of sunlight. Even the clerks looked a little younger. But one thing had not changed, probably never would: the Tiffany tradition of muffled, almost clandestine conservatism...
Louis Comfort Tiffany, head man almost until his death in 1933, intensified his father's love for privacy. When the 37th Street store was built in 1905, Tiffany avoided telling anything about his business even to a banker. He paid $2,000,000 cash for the land, $2,000,000 cash for the building. To this day Tiffany & Co. has never published a financial report. Extremely inactive, the closely held stock sometimes does not change hands for years. Last known sale: three shares last summer at $465 a share. But in a 1932 lawsuit Tiffany & Co. reluctantly said sales...
...pitch-potent Cincinnati Reds, National League pennant winners: baseball's 37th annual World Series; nosing out the slugging Detroit Tigers, American League champions, 2-to-1, in the seventh and last game; the National League's first victory since 1934, Cincinnati's first world championship since the scandalous Black Sox series of 1919; at Crosley Field, Cincinnati...