Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gift Shop Proprietor Joy Hawley, who had experience with direct-mail advertising, wrote personal letters to hundreds of residents of Orlando and nearby Winter Park. She and her gift-shop partner, Helen Ryan, decided to call anyone who gave $5,000 or more an angel. A benefactor gives $1,000, a patron $500, and so on to associate members, who give $5. Last year the letters brought in $37,000 toward this season's budget...
Conrad Aiken, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, is an example. He was first attracted to Grolier's by the usual assortment of esoteric books pyramided in the window. He became a regular visitor, and soon formed a literary friendship with Gordon C. Cairne, the shop's proprietor. In his autobiography Aiken speaks of his visits to the Grolier as some of the most refreshing moments spent in the Square. Joseph Alsop, New York Herald Tribune columnist, spent his undergraduate hours slouched in the shop's overstuffed sofa. Cairnic remembers him as "one of the fattest Freshmen ever to enter Harvard...
After nine races it was all over, and Jacksonites settled down to an evening of celebration. The owner of the winning pair was a Jacksonite and nearly the most popular man in town-none other than Proprietor John Wort, 53, of the Wort Hotel and its Silver Dollar Bar. His beautifully matched quarter horses, Peaches Howard and Nevada Nugget, had survived all elimination heats, then raced down the pasture in a two-team final in a cracking 25 sec. flat-just 3 sec. over the turf record for quarter-horse racing...
Bread & Butter Note. In Bloomington, Ind., a burglar who appeared worried lest his robbery of $5 from a grocery go unnoticed left a message for the proprietor: "I robbed...
...believe they'll outlaw pinball," stated Saxe, proprietor of Harry's Areade on Mount Auburn St. "It's beneficial, not only to students, but to the general public...