Word: hostessing
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...than in the golden river days made famous by Mark Twain. There was less romance but more business (19,680,176 tons in the first nine months of 1940). The Greene Line got its share. No longer active as a pilot, Ma Greene now serves as symbol and occasional hostess for the line, lets her two sons run things. Last week they announced that the line had set an all-time record last year by carrying 102,438 tons (up 10% from 1939, 19.5% from 1938). No profit figures were disclosed, but river men knew Ma Greene's line...
...Harbor hotel whose dance music had been supplied by Boston Symphony men. Now Eastern dowagers would sooner serve gin and ginger ale at their parties than employ non-Davis bands: during a recent Newport season, Meyer Davis played at 59 out of 60 top-flight parties. (The eccentric 60th hostess hired Paul Whiteman.) More than half the young ladies at last month's Philadelphia Assembly-oldest annual party in the U. S.-had come out to Davis melody. Meyer Davis has played through five administrations at the White House, although he had few dates during...
...will be the center for the Harvard-Radcliffe weekend scheduled for the first and second of February, and a special barn dance is slated for Saturday night. The next weekend Wellesley College finishes midyears, and the girls from Lake Waban will be off to Intervale, where they will play hostess to a delegation of Cantabrigians...
...Army's new Morale Division (TIME, Sept. 30), already swamped by 600 applications, last week published its hostess specifications...
...with Edgar Bergen at March Field, Calif., offered a combination peashooter-bombsight "guaranteed to hit a cuspidor at 30 feet," was sworn in as honorary master sergeant by Colonel Benjamin G. Weir, base commander. Viewing 21 flying fortresses lined up in his honor, Charlie suggested: "Try putting a hostess in each...