Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though he has made many a fast buck on movie scripts lately (Church of the Good Thief, Ladies Day), Considine has no intention of deserting Hearst for Hollywood. Says he: "Last year I spent time in Palm Springs, Paris and Mexico City. I covered the Kentucky Derby and talked to the Pope. I even saw the World Series. It's a pretty good...
...faction decided to force Ashby's hand on the question of faculty tenure. At a meeting of the faculty cabinet-an administrative holdover from pre-Ashby days-it pushed through a vote recommending that all the Smith boys be given life contracts. The board of trustees gave a fast and brusque answer. They told Smith and Mabee that they were fired. The trustees also informed three other teachers-a member of the political science department, the director of the fine arts school, and a member of the music department-that their contracts would not be renewed...
...first-team men this year are local products). Then he taught them his basketball axiom: "It is a game of a million situations." He kept a piece of chalk handy and was forever getting on one knee to sketch new situations on the floor. His basic offense was a fast break that could evolve into a ripple of finger-tip passes that he called a Barrel Roll, or "a million" other combinations. Men like Macauley and Forward Joe Ossola helped make Hickey's theories work...
...than G.M.'s five division bosses and the man who keeps them pulling together with the purring power of a V-8-President Charles Erwin Wilson. A $236,000-a-year captain of industry, "C.E.," as his friends call him, is a reserved, blue-eyed boss who thinks fast, talks slow and never wastes his time pounding the desk. Slightly jowly, with a pleasant smile, he has neither bombast nor bulk (he is 5 ft. 10 in., 175 lbs.). He talks with a mild Midwest twang, walks with a slight stoop as if bucking a breeze. Both...
Spills & Falls. Motormaker Wilson is a cattle breeder (Ayrshires), and at Windrow Farms, 20 miles from Longmeadow, has the largest private herd in Michigan. He used to play a fast game of tennis, still fishes and hunts occasionally, and is a good swimmer. He gave up ice skating after breaking his hip in a fall, and reluctantly gave up riding to hounds with the Bloomfield Open Hunt after breaking his shoulder in a spill from a balky hunter...