Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usually Big Jim goes for publicity like a drunk for a bottle. But last week he just slipped a posy into his buttonhole, picked up Jamelle (who quit her job in the Highway Department), and took off from the Governor's Mansion. Forty miles north, Jim and Jamelle got married in the Rockford Baptist Church. Twittered the brunette, 21-year-old bride: "I feel like I'm going around in circles." Gruffed the groom: "She's not the wife of the governor-she's the wife of Jim Folsom...
Arcaro owns a home in the suburbs. It is a nine-room stone-&-stucco house on a dead-end street in Rockville Centre, L.I. ?safe for his two kids, Carolyn, 6,?and Bobby, 4. Arcaro, who has been living soft since he quit as contract jockey for the Greentree Stable 1½ years ago, sleeps until 9 a.m. He used to get up at 6 a.m., like most jockeys. Now a free lancer, he eats a leisurely breakfast, and at 11:30 a.m. hops into his Cadillac and drives to work...
...parents who gave in. "We have talked," said one, "until we are blue in the face." Finally almost all the parents signed a petition asking the school-board members to quit...
...former national officer of the Independent Citizens' Committee, he bolted his party in 1944 to be national chairman of the Independent Republicans for Roosevelt. He recently quit the Progressive Citizens of America when it went for Wallace. His service on the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine turned him into an author (Behind the Silken Curtain); he is now an ardent advocate of partition. In moving to Manhattan, he will give up, among other things, the presidency of two radio stations owned by Ted and Dorothy Thackrey, owners of the New York Post...
Burly, black-haired Ed Queeny was no chemist; he had quit Cornell in his sophomore year to join the Navy in World War I. But he knew enough about chemistry to know that the U.S. market for chemicals was unlimited...