Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down. In the 1937 race, a Frenchman drove over a cliff into the sea, and one Italian ended Up with his radiator embedded in the ticket office of Monte Carlo's railroad station. Last week, after 50 laps (halfway), eleven of the 19 cars in the race had quit. But Igor, gripping the wheel of his No. 36, a crimson Ferrari, was still in the running. Then it happened...
...years ago, at 48, Walter Hoving got tired of working for other people. He quit his $135,000-a-year job at Lord & Taylor, formed his own Hoving Corp. to "acquire and operate" stores "with an annual volume of between $150 and $200 million." Many a merchandiser, who regarded Hoving's cold self-confidence as plain conceit, shrugged off this big talk. But last week Hoving, who bought Manhattan's Bonwit Teller two years ago (TIME, June 10, 1946), took another step toward his goal...
...with punch. From the Brooklyn Eagle, the Sun borrowed young (25) Edmund Duffy for three months. That was in 1924, and the dapper Duffy never went back to Brooklyn. He now shares the record (with Rollin Kirby) of winning three Pulitzer Prizes for cartoons. Last week Duffy decided to quit the Sun. He wanted a vacation-and would spend it mulling over some better offers that had been waved under his nose...
...Angeles, Don Lee's W6XAO, the oldest TV station in the U.S. (17 years), quit calling itself experimental, and went commercial. In Atlanta, Louisville, Cincinnati, Fort Worth, Stockton, Calif, and 50 other U.S. cities, television towers were going...
Unlike Crapo Smith, leathery Daniel G. Arnstein is still young at 58, very much alive, and dapper rather than dignified. He quit school at 13 to help support his family, worked as a $2-a-week office boy, and later as a cab starter. For a while, he went to night school, carried a dictionary around with him to look up the words he didn't know. But he never got to college: "I majored in work...