Word: clubbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the smallest companies like to have at least one country-clubber on their staff. One small Boston advertising firm has a low-70s golfer whose only job is to play with prospective customers, softening them up for the eventual sales pitch from another member of the firm. Bigger corporations may have a dozen memberships to hand out ta their executives, chart their plan of attack as carefully as any sales campaign. They spread their men around in different clubs covering every customer market, make sure to put each man in the club where he can do the most good...
After admiring the garden, the President accepted a dozen long-stemmed roses for Mamie, which he turned over to a Secret Service man. When the man left to put the flowers in the car, an indignant garden clubber let out a yelp. "Where's he going with our flowers?" she demanded...
...orchids, tossed seven quarters in a series of wishing ponds, accepted a boutonniere. His progress was difficult, what with the enveloping reporters and photographers, officials and a fluttering brood of dowagers pleading that the flowers be spared. When a photographer slipped ankle-deep into a pond, a glaring garden clubber cried, "Shame...
...partner (along with Averell Harriman) in Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co., a director of the Columbia Broadcasting System and the Prudential Insurance Co., a fellow (along with Dean Acheson and Robert Taft) of the Yale Corporation. He is a crack golfer (shot a 66 last year), an enthusiastic glee clubber. He served as the party's finance chairman, 1947-50, and put on a razzle-dazzle show against razzle-dazzle Benton in the 1950 Senatorial campaign, which Bush lost by a narrow 1,102-vote margin...
...mysterious to those who feel the pressure of his vermiform "journalism." Of late weeks, he has been relentlessly worming away at a little-known Manhattan restaurant called Chandler's. According to Winchell, the place is a "gyp joint" run by gougers and chiselers. Stork Clubber Winchell has never been seen in Chandler's himself, but in the past three weeks he has extruded no less than twelve items, even repeating one attack three times. Last week Chandler's owners retorted with a $1,000,000 libel suit against Winchell, the Hearst Corp. and King Features, which distributes...