Word: gibson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sturdy little Owen S. Gibson, 69, onetime Chautauqua performer, onetime plumber and builder, used to think that Townsendism was the biggest thing in his life. But now Owen Gibson works at Douglas Aircraft's big Long Beach plant, on a "burr bench," where he files the rough edges off machined airplane parts. Says he: "I haven't been so active in the club since working here. This is all-important-the other isn't so important...
...many ways Billy De Beck lived a life as unreal as the comic-strip characters he fathered. When he was at high school in Chicago he drew imitation Charles Dana Gibson pictures, peddled them for profit. He did cartoons for a theatrical weekly and for several newspapers. But he stayed poor until he turned out a correspondence course on "How to be a cartoonist and make big money." He sold thousands of copies for $1 apiece. He was doing a so-so successful strip, "Married Life," for the Chicago Herald at $35 a week when King Features hired...
...Nineteen showgirls en route to Miami, Fla. from Manhattan by train, donned scanty bathing suits, covered themselves and the suits with war stamps. In nine minutes flat, passengers had peeled off and paid for all the stamps (see cut). Value: $500. In Los Angeles a model named Judith Gibson appeared on the I. Magnin department store steps in a strapless suit made of stamps, cheerfully sold bonds to four men, all fully clothed...
Adviser for Adams House is James J. Realy, teaching fellow in Economics, in B-21, while Neil A. McDonald of Kirkland A-27 is adviser for the House. Russell Gibson, associate professor of Economic Geology, of Winthrop 1-25 and Charles P. Berger of Leverett K-31 are advisers of their respective Houses. The advisers for Lowell House is James M. Hoakes, in F-22. Willard M. Bright, teaching fellow in Chemistry, is available at Dunster House, while Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English is adviser for Eliot House...
...rest they offer no detailed plan for peace, but do try to set forth "principles which will need to be considered if peace is to be built on solid foundations." Some of the Hoover-Gibson principles...