Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's frumious Mayor Ed Kelly, who once introduced the Navy's famed "Bull" Halsey as "Alderman Halsey" had another one of those weeks. Highlights...
...Homer's time, the bloody, bull-roaring rites of Knossos were a memory, and the hell-for-leather chariot cavalry and iron-pointed spears of the savage Dorians (the last great wave of northern barbarians to inundate Greece) had driven the Goddess into hiding. Their god, and Homer's, was her rebellious son, Zeus-who later got an ancestry...
...girl was an Oklahoma farmer's daughter, WAC T/4 Connie Grayson, 23, who was picked mostly because she was the lightest (106 lbs.) of all the G.I.s at Cambridge. The Americans called themselves "Bull College," after their billets in the famed Bull Hotel. They practiced three times a week for four weeks, trying to learn the mysteries of bumping races. The boats line up one after another, two lengths apart, and each tries to catch the shell ahead. Once the prow of the overtaking boat actually touches the other's stern, the overtaken boat loses one place...
...always, the crews lined up for the first day's race in the order they finished the previous year (Jesus has been "Head of the River" for nine of the past twelve years). So Bull College was put near the tail end, in 59th place out of 60 crews (Trinity Seventh was 60th). When Corpus' Third, King's Third, and Saint Catharine's Fourth, the other tail-enders, got snarled in each other's oars, the coaches began firing pistol shots and Connie began to scream. Her G.I.s, who took her shrieks for exhortations, plowed...
...whose cash feeds the Big Bull market lives in New York, Altoona, Waco and Zanesville. This was proved last week by Wall Street's largest brokerage firm, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane (waggishly called "All This and Fenner Too!"). In 1945, it reported, it had added 40,000 new customers, added two new offices to its 89 in big & little cities, had doubled its profits ($8,834,063 v. $4,483,576 in 1944). As a result, 75 partners of Merrill Lynch will split $1,288,887, after all taxes and their own salaries are paid. Said MLPFB modestly...