Word: joiners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joiner. In Hutchinson, Kans., Jeweler Glenn Brown caught a bad-check artist who casually remarked that he was both a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Masons...
Personality: Cagey before committing himself on anything, no backslapper, but easy and humorous when with friends. Has an intuitive knack for picking good subordinates, but has been called thin-skinned to criticism. A Presbyterian, and a great joiner (American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Shriners, Knights Templar, Elks, Eagles, Kiwanis, the Capital Card Club, etc.). Loves riding and campaigning on horseback; in parades, he exchanges his conservative suits for a white, gaily embroidered cowboy costume and ten-gallon hat. Married to Mabel Hill, whom he met in his college days; two daughters, both married...
Alcoholics & Snobs. South Carolina's Democrat Joseph Bryson, a Baptist and an avid joiner (Mason, Shriner, Woodman, Redman, Junior Merrymaker, Moose and United Commercial Traveler), admitted that what he liked on TV was Fred Waring, Herb Shriner and "rassling." What he didn't like was the "wife-swapping" indicated by the introduction of a TV star (unnamed) which included the information that the star's current wife was "so-and-so." At this news, Colorado's Chenoweth again sat up and took notice. "Shows the actual exchange of wives, does it?" he asked intently. "Is that...
...Joiner. In Reno, after quitting as manager of a meat packing firm because "Office of Price Stabilization regulations make a profit impossible," M. A. ("Tiny") Fairchild got a new job as foods section chief of the OPS district office...
When Barbara Joiner Parsons was made a general partner in the Wall Street brokerage firm of Jacquin, Stanley & Co., she received a telegram from the Ziegfeld Club: "Darling, Congratulations." Barbara is an ex-dancer in the Follies, and the first Ziegfeld girl to reach such starry heights on the Street. Only about 50 women are general partners on Wall Street. Texas-born Barbara Parsons got into the Follies of 1018, pranced and kicked. alongside such stars as Marilyn Miller and Eddie Cantor. After leaving the Follies she took some business courses, got a job selling a financial letter...