Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the big oil companies, who ache to get back into Mexico, were glad to see this foot in the door, they were surprised at the man chosen to put it there. Among oilmen, Jones is known not as a wildcatter but as the dealer in oil royalties who first tested the power of SEC in court...
...successful soap-opera actor -but that is a far cry from being a movie matinee idol. Gone is the famous 23-foot Marmon with his name in solid gold on the door. He can no longer afford to pass out $100 tips to waiters. His hair is white, and the lean, taut jaw line once beloved by millions of women has run to jowls. "At 64," booms Francis Xavier Bushman, "my energies are somewhat-ah-shall we say, mellowed, but my profile is unimpaired...
...Studio Audience: "... A mass of negative flotsam. Open the door of any studio at any hour of the day or night and a faceless group will flock inside to participate in quiz programs, community sings, or to laugh and applaud as directed...
Council Treasurer Ray A. Goldherg '48 said last night that college participation in the fund drive will have to reach a 98 percent level in order to achieve the $25,000 figure. An intensive publicity campaign, featuring door-to-door appeals, will begin this week...
...This year it will be different," promises Mikkola. "We will get to the hills somehow." Some of the nicest, back-breakingest hills in this region are right next door in Medford and is is probably to these hills that Mikkola and his men will struggle like desert wanderers toward an oasis. The Crimson's coach has suggested that if Varsity and Freshman runners supply the cars to get there, the H.A.A. will foot the gas bills...