Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Band was almost ruled out for the job because its 150 members would not leave enough room in the banquet hall for the N.A.M. Forty men had to be cut from the travelling squad to get it down to the right dimensions...
Keepsake. In Los Angeles, as an added service to a lubrication job, Mechanic J. H. Fisher removed a squeak from a car door, put it back next day at the owner's request because it had "sentimental memories...
...long periods slept with a loaded pistol under his pillow. Born in the Ionian Islands in 1850 of mixed Anglo-Irish and Maltese stock, he emigrated to the U.S. at 19, slept in Manhattan doorways and vacant lots, finally went West to Cincinnati in 1871 and got a job on the Enquirer. Color-conscious Cincinnati readers liked his lush accounts of the seamier side of Queen City life, but were rocked to the heels when word got around that Reporter...
...interest," he wrote a few years after his arrival. "There are no depths to stir, no race-profundities to explore: all is like a Japanese riverbed . . . never filled but in times of cataclysm and destruction." The Japanese government added to his disillusionment by easing him out of his university job. In the last years of his life he often longed to escape both family and country. He never did. A heart attack killed him on Sept...
...Smith, who took scoring laurels, tallied on eight out of nine foul throws and worked well with Bill Prior in Shepard's two-man pivot scheme. Bill Hickey set up most of the plays and did a creditable job...