Word: club
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington desk Hoffman is a shirtsleeves administrator, working early & late, even-tempered, ready with smile and soft humor. At first he took to solitary soda-fountain lunches to save time, now he has small lunches with other officials, often at the Metropolitan Club. When he appears before Congress he turns on some of his old salesman's magic, has earned widespread respect for candor and readiness with information. "You should see him operate with Congress," said a colleague. "Whenever a knotty one comes up, he slaps his knee and says: 'Senator, you're entirely right...
...cuts were bigger than those made by General Motors a month ago, though smaller than the recent slashes in Kaisers, Frazers and Willys. Ford's cuts brought the prices of Ford Custom-Six cars into exact competitive line with Chevrolet's comparable models, except for the club coupe, which is now $15 cheaper than Chevvie...
...first session, Smith hired a hall that would seat 50, but when applicants besieged him with calls, he hastily switched to the 550-seat Women's City Club auditorium. The women all but broke down the doors; 300 without tickets were turned away. Few of the 583 registrants missed a session; bankers and corporation heads began to clamor to get on the list of guest lecturers. Last week Smith had 1,100 women on the waiting list for his second course, to start in a few weeks...
Loyal at first only to his mother and his crippled brother (Arthur Kennedy), Midge gets his start in a fight-club preliminary. With a natural yen for money and bloodletting, he soon gets a professional manager (Paul Stewart) and starts dropping other middleweights like bulls in a stockyard. He also becomes adept at dropping his friends, usually with a kick in the teeth. In one way or another, he gets rid of his bride (whom he married at the point of a gun), his manager, a couple of girl friends, and even his brother...
...first Harvard student to get to Wellesley on the morning on Sunday, April 24, will be greeted unrestrainedly by a smooth; curavacious, perfectly inflated, and fast moving Schwin bicycle. The only hitch, announced Harvard Outing Club president William Siddall '50, last night, is that the lucky student will have to get there by bicycle in a 10 1/2 mile racing starting at the intersection of Chestnut Hill Ave. and the Worcester Turnpike...