Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Legs & Heartbeats. Despite that amateurish performance, long wartime absence from competition hadn't hurt MacMitchell's legs. Nor had war increased his slow heartbeat; MacMitchell's still pumped at a tardy 43 beats a minute. What he needed most was crack competition. Ready to oblige: Wisconsin's Walter Mehl, conqueror of Glenn Cunningham, who was out of the Navy and in training; ex-Dartmouth speedster Don Burnham...
...months the aviation industry has speculated on whether or when the world's biggest airplane would ever fly. Last week speculation turned to skepticism. Reason: Charles W. Perelle, the crack production man who had been hired to complete Howard Hughes' 212-ton, 750-passenger flying boat, quit his job in a huff...
...Accepted "with utmost reluctance," the resignation of Vice Admiral Emory S. Land, crack boss of the U.S. Merchant Marine for eight years...
...More Gags. Ethridge's title then was general manager. But he knew that it was the news, not the advertising, that makes the paper. He hunted up crack newsmen, paid them well, invested heavily in editorial promotion, cut out the circulation gags & stunts. Said he: "You can't have $75-a-week editors and $400-a-week business managers and expect to meet the competition...
...Team. Bob Gross quarterbacked the job, and now gets $112,500 a year for continuing to do it. But he had and has a crack team to help him. The first string...