Word: philadelphianization
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RANKING up with Partners Goren and Sobel in the Big Four of U.S. bridge-as judged by master points piled up in American Contract Bridge League tournaments -are Sidney Silodor (4,479½) and John Randolph Crawford (4,383), longtime teammates with radically different bridge-table styles. Philadelphian Silodor, 51, who makes a comfortable income as a society bridge teacher, is perhaps the slowest player in top-level bridge, infuriates opponents with long spells of fierce, immobile concentration. Suave, dapper New Yorker Crawford, 43, Main Line Philadelphian by origin (he claims to be the only bridge master in the Social...
...James Cope, 53, moved into the No. 4 spot at Chrysler Corp. with a new job as vice president of corporate market planning and a big responsibility for keeping Chrysler out ahead of the style parade. Born in Italy, where his father, a Philadelphian, was living temporarily, Cope came to the U.S. to stay in 1915, went to work as a newspaperman at 19, first for the Asheville, N.C. Citizen and later for the Associated Press in Washington. Moving over to organize a public relations staff for the Automobile Manufacturers Assn., he caught the eye of Chrysler President...
...truck driver who got behind in his payments to the prorater found that the agency had changed hats. It began working as a collection agency for his creditors, and garnisheed his wages. Clients who wake up, discover that they've signed a skillfully-drawn, loophole-tight contract. One Philadelphian taken for $500 appealed to the local Legal Aid Society only to find 70 complainants before him. Nothing could be done. Said he: "It cost me $500 to find out I could handle my debts better than the debt lumpers could...
...move -about their own country and on record invasions of foreign shores. The travelers, according to reports from all our sources, are devoting themselves mostly to just plain fun, like the newlyweds motoring down the Loire Valley in a rented new bug-model Citroen, the bald Philadelphian sipping vermouth and eying the Italian beauties strolling along Rome's Via Veneto, or the middle-aged sportsmen playing at being matadors in Madrid's new bullfighting cafe...
...Philadelphian born and bred, I strongly resent the slur upon my native city contained in the May 16 letter of Dr. Robert W. Blair of Hollywood, in which he advises Correspondent Brown (late of Sweden) to seek sweet surcease of sex in Philadelphia. Every red-blooded Philadelphian from the Navy Yard to Willow Grove, from Tinicum Creek to the Main Line (inclusive) will rise in protest against this foul slander ... Of course it's a well-known fact that things are different over in Camden...