Word: carding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus arises the hypocritical term, "House dues." Rather than associate their efforts with those of the Combined Charities Drive, the Committees have a number of so-called "membership" cards printed. For two dollars, anyone who already must eat and sleep there may also become a member of his House. He is free, however, not to pay, and the only privileges he forfeits are possession of the card and entrance to a few free functions sponsored by the Committee. The unfortunate House Committeeman is left with no apology for his presence except the exhortation that contributing is "a nice thing...
...Silver-haired, dark-eyed Ewing Scott had man-of-distinction looks. He had wooed and won another woman with inherited money back in the 1930s, but that marriage ended in divorce. In the interval between two wealthy wives, Scott clerked in a paint store, but he carried a business card billing himself as an "investment broker." The only noticeable work he did during his second marriage was writing How to Fascinate Men, a brief handbook for women. It made him no money at all: he never paid the printer's $6,818.64 bill, and a court awarded the printer...
FORMER COMMUNISTS who are officers of United Auto Workers will not be stripped of union jobs. U.A.W.'s Public Review Board held that five officials who are admitted ex-Reds and five others who took Fifth Amendment before congressional committees must be retained. But card-holding Communists are still barred from office...
...Nothing prepares you for Broadway. All those years in radio with some guy holding up an applause card-that isn't show business. You aren't a success in show business until you do something that makes the people dig down in their pants pockets and buy a ticket." Last week so many people were digging down for tickets to his rollicking smash hit musical that Music Man Willson was a victim of his own success, had to watch one performance from standing room in the rear of the theater...
Bill Brown led the scoring for St. Lawrence with three goals, while Ted Card with two scores and Sam Sammis with one tally completed the scoring for the Larries. Captain Bob Cleary, Ed Owen, Bud Higgenbottom, and John Copeland scored for the Crimson. Copeland got credit for his goal when the last varsity tally went in off a St. Lawrence defenseman...