Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slow, expensive efforts at perfection, Minnelli drives writers, producers, actors and technicians quietly out of their habit-hardened professional minds. But he does it so gently, and always for such excellent reasons, that they end up, as his producer Arthur Freed says, by "loving him." Says his cutter, George White, "He may drive you crazy but he gets what he's after. For a guy who has that much on the ball, I'll string along...
...caught up with Walton only six days out to sea, in the darkness before dawn when a U-boat attacked the Coast Guard cutter on which he was crossing the Atlantic (perhaps you remember his vivid story of the eight-hour battle in which the Spencer finally killed...
...days later, a second mass-merchandiser of health advice was dead. Dr. Irving S. Cutter, 69, dean emeritus of the Northwestern University Medical School, writer of a "How to Keep Well" column in 50 newspapers (combined circulation: 15 million), died of cancer...
Camping in the Catsldlls. He meant to be a surgeon, but hard times hit his father, a Brooklyn dress cutter, and Danny went to work as a soda jerker. He also tried a job as an insurance man. Then he became a professional life-of-the-party at a summer camp in the Catskill Mountains. When he wasn't cheering up the guests, he washed dishes and waited on table. He worked the summer camps for four seasons. During the winter he pestered Broadway producers, and lived on his summer earnings...
...second job brought a second lesson. As an apprentice garment cutter, Waldman took part in the great cloakmakers' strike of 1910. For reporting on the employer's violation of the subsequent settlement, he was not only fired but blacklisted throughout the industry...