Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Darby learned the boilermaker's trade in his father's small shop, was a combat artillery captain in World War I, and on his father's death in 1923 brashly borrowed $120,000 from a bank to buy and improve his father's boiler shop, groomed it into a rich and versatile steel-fabricating company...
...Sports Editor Vernon ("Curley") Grieve of Hearst's Examiner got so excited last week that he thought he heard voices. Wrote Grieve: "When Mayor Elmer G. Robinson turned on the floodlights ... a huge gasp escaped from the throng and it rolled upward like escaped steam from a huge boiler. It was then-unanimously-that the crowd mumbled: 'This is grand. This is what we need and want...
Oversight. In Harlingen, Tex., E. N. Foster apologized for mistakenly reporting that thieves had carried off his 800-lb. boiler: he later found it mislaid in a closet...
Into the Black. Sancton set about speeding up the Journal's four pages, which for years, unrelieved by photos or even headlines, had been padded with boiler plate and fillers. In Vermont, he bought a second-hand linotype machine to set a cleaner column in a fraction of the four hours it had taken the Journal's printer to hand set one. He brightened Page One with newsy photographs and headlines (one big March story: JOHN C. HOLLAND LAID TO REST). In his English car, Editor Sancton made the rounds of his borderline beat, hunting for stories...
...Folger's players, who had to use the Folger's boiler room as overflow dressing quarters, were The Masquers of Amherst College, alma mater of the library's late founder, Oil Millionaire Henry Clay Folger. As a London director of 1600 would have it, they performed without sets, in frilly Elizabethan costumes instead of Roman togas. One non-authentic touch: girls were cast in the two feminine roles. The program explained: "We have somehow lost the knack of training juveniles to play female parts...