Word: hotshots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, Oregon has had a law forbidding high-school secret societies but in Oregon's largest city, high-school kids have paid no attention. In Portland (pop. 400,000), the societies flourish. They have mysterious names like EUK, Pack and Domino; they pledge socially prominent classmates, hotshot athletes or just kids "who have something," from convertibles to "cute personalities...
Last week, Cincinnati's Powel Crosley Jr. became the first postwar U.S. auto manufacturer to make a deliberate play for the hot-rod market. He introduced a two-seater "Hotshot" Crosley roadster, looking like a dime-store version of the once-famed Stutz Bearcat (see cut). Although Crosley estimates that not more than one out of 100 owners will use the Hotshot as a racer, he has made it easy for them to do so. Windshield, lights, bumpers and top can be stripped off in a few minutes, readying the car for road or track racing. Its overhead-valve...
...Nick" Nichols has been a hotshot ever since he went into the business. At 25, he was editor of Screen Guide; at 27, he ran Click up from a big circulation slump to the million mark. (Later, after Nichols joined the Army, Click went bust.) At Dell Publishing Co., Nichols has boosted Modern Screen to a peak circulation (1,164,476) and a peak revenue...
Outing Club officials figure that a good-for-nothing cyclist can leaf along ten and one-half miles in an hour, and that a hotshot, loaded with ephedrine and the will to win, can navigate the distance in the neighborhood of a half hour. For the record, the best time was turned in by one John T. Potter '42, a two time winner who hurtled the ten and a half miles in a scant 28 minutes, 30 seconds back...
...John L. was a hotshot around the coal tipples, but on the sidewalks of New York he turned out to be strictly a stiff with a bum pitch. Last week, after eight days of trying, Lewis' flugelmen were badly beaten and muttering that they'd try again. They didn't say when...