Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...musical director, "I was solely responsible for virtually every Red Seal record made in America" from 1930 to 1944. He had "played ping-pong most of the night with Jascha Heifetz (a good player and a bad loser); jumped naked and shivering into Albert Spalding's icy pool at 7 a.m. . . . soothed the childish rages of Iturbi . . . softened and diverted the bovine stubbornness of Flagstad; ignored Pons's sulks and Moore's tantrums. . . ." This week, in a book called The Other Side of the Record (Knopf; $3.50), O'Connell unloaded "the accumulated irritations of years...
Everyday Sights. Pool buyers long ago learned that the first cost of a swimming pool is only a start; there is also a fat annual fee for maintenance. In Southern California, a lot of the upkeep goes to an Ilsley maintenance subsidiary which employs 60-odd workmen, grosses...
Hollywood liked the seamless bowls so much that Paddock, pool-purveyor to cinemoguls since 1922, hired Ilsley as a consultant. When Pascal Paddock, company president, decided to sell in 1939, Ilsley bought him out for a mere $17,000. During the war, Ilsley built pools and water tanks for the Army & Navy, thus was ready to dive back into private pools at war's end. Now he produces about one custom-made pool a day (average cost: about $10,000), paid himself $41,000 last year in salary and bonuses. The company netted $59,730. With the People...
Much of their work consists of regular deck-scrubbing, water-testing, leaf-skimming, and extracting dead rats and bobby pins from pools. In Beverly Hills, whose 700-odd pools occupy most of their time, the job is far from routine. After police had searched two days for Actor Joseph Cotten's car, reported stolen, Cotten found it and called Ilsley's men to retrieve it, from his pool. Another time, they fished a live deer out of Joan Fontaine's pool. Jack Benny, who had an octopus molded into the bottom of his tank for laughs, called...
Down in the basement of the Indoor Athletic Building on either side of the pool are two fifty-foot long corridors, lined with concrete and steel. In one of these the Harvard Rifle Club members intend firing some 24,000 rounds of ammunition this year...