Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worth of their hotel, bar, party and race-track checks. On the distaff side, the names read like theater marquees or the roll call at Hollywood's Central Casting. Actresses Lana Turner, Linda Darnell and Ava Gardner were said to be on the committee's list. A leggy, blonde ex-riveter named Judy Cook declared that she had been paid $100 to put on her swimming act in the Hughes pool for visiting dignitaries. Actress Myrna Dell and Lovelies Marilyn ("Miss America, 1946") Buferd and Wendy Russell denied having been paid for their company...
...inside the difference was immediately noticeable. Admonitory signs were everywhere. "Have you locked your safe?" Guards checked each visitor's name against a calling list, escorted him to & from his appointment, meticulously examined each employee's special tamper-proof pass. There were no exceptions...
...reasons good & sufficient to Author Bowerman-such as eminence due to sheer luck; traitors and criminals-some 210 names were given the heave ho (samples: William "Boss" Tweed, Carrie Nation, Daniel Boone, Pocahontas). Enough also-rans (1½ pages in the D.A.B.) were then added to bring the list to an even thousand. The finalists include 973 men (examples: George and Booker T. Washington, Eugene V. Debs, Aaron Burr, Andrew Carnegie, Brigham Young) and 27 women (Lillian Russell, Emily Dickinson, Mary Baker Eddy). Some of the findings...
...University's hampering of undergraduate activities that lead to a loyal, as well as generous, alumni body stretches to other things besides purveyor lists, and, to be blunt, can only result in a smaller and smaller dollar harvest from the already less copious graduates. Such exorbitant charges as $30 for running off the stencils of the Album's mailing list, general milking of graduating classes for every cent of the wasteful costs of Class Day exercises, leave rancid tastes that are bound to linger through the years. And it is still expected that, through an almost dead class loyalty...
...Council investigation indicated that the 1950 Red Book, the first to attempt operation without the purveyor list as basis for advertising solicitation, was already $500 in debt, and that the 1946 Album depended for about 85 percent of its advertising on those concerns selling to the University. These two books, the Council said, were the only publications considered in the investigation, since they alone have operated wholly under the post-war price structure...