Word: post
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moffie ran from his regular wingback post for the first time since Stanford yesterday as the offensive unit brushed up on timing against the Jayvees. Coach Valpey predicted he would be ready this week "if he gets back in condition in time...
...have their hair bobbed. In 1932, ten years after Fox's death, the Police Gazette folded. Revived by Mrs. Merle Williams Hersey, a Methodist minister's daughter, as a magazine frankly and exclusively devoted to sex. the Gazette was sold in 1935 to Publisher Roswell. When the Post Office suspended his mailing privileges in 1942 for one year for "obscenity," Roswell cleaned up the Gazette a bit. New Editor Hoffman plans to give the monthly magazine another scrubbing, replace "Bare Facts About Burlesque" with more bare facts about sport...
...mournful harmonica rendition of Hearts and Flowers, a group of traders marched across the paper-strewn floor of the New York Stock Exchange one afternoon last week. At Post No. 9 they stopped, laid down a wreath to the memory of an old friend...
...board and brought in 50-year-old H. Cornell Smith, onetime merchandising manager of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, department store. Smith has tackled some big jobs in his time. As a World War II colonel on General Somervell's staff, he helped organize the billion-dollar Wartime Post Exchange system, and the Pacific supply centers for the never-launched invasion of Japan...
...cult, presided over by Authors Alva Johnston and Gene Fowler (who turned over all his notes to Biographer Taylor). An ex-newspaperman and author of some of The New Yorker's smoothest profiles on amiable eccentrics, Taylor strings out the Fields anecdotes (first serialized in the Saturday Evening Post) with skill and devotion, content to be entertaining about one of America's greatest entertainers...