Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Fran Pratt was graduated from Yale and went to work for General Electric in his home town of Schenectady, the circulation of two-year-old TIME was 75,000. In 1939, when he came to TIME after a hitch at the Harvard Business School and considerable experience in retailing and magazine publishing, our circulation was 750,000. Today, with over 1,500,000 paid circulation in his corner, he could be forgiven for relaxing a bit. But Pratt, who is a ruddy, blue-eyed, eupeptic father of three (two boys, a girl) with an appalling propensity for work...
After ten years of silence, Ruth got the old showman's urge again last winter. She warmed up with three guest appearances on Rudy Vallee's radio show, then put in a three-week nightclub hitch (for $4,000 a week) at Manhattan's big, brassy Copacabana. By that time she was ready for radio again...
...Elizabeth has sometimes had to rebuke him for ordering the servants about too much. King George can approve his daughter's marriage only with the consent of the Cabinet, and so far Philip's connection with the Greek regime, remote as it is, has been a slight hitch. But last week, as plain Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, Prince Philip was granted his British citizenship, and even that hitch seemed to have been overcome. When Elizabeth is asked about her engagement, she replies with a coy, "For that you must wait and see." But the Empire is quite prepared...
...will take him at least two years of diligent travel. His Church of England stipend of $5,000 a year does not allow for much travel after living expenses have been paid. Even though he has a small private income, Bishop Selwyn hopes his episcopal gaiters will help him hitch many a plane or car ride. He plans to take his wife "only when I can afford...
...good student, he showed particular talent for geology, the "new science" which the oil business was just getting interested in. Gene also got interested. He spent a year after graduation studying geology at the University of Texas and then a hitch as a corporal in the U.S. Signal Corps in World War I. He caught the eye of Wallace Pratt, then Standard's top geologist, who hired Gene to work fin its subsidiary, Humble Oil Co. There Holman again impressed the right person-William Stamps Parish, Humble's president. In a short time he was made boss...