Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best sources-are such people as doormen and automobile callers at Washington receptions. One denizen of the social world once said to her: "Oh Evie, somebody told me you had a piece about me today. We don't take the News, but my servants do. Would you send the column to me?" Evie takes such jibes in stride. Says she: "My readers are janitors and cab drivers and ambassadors and Cabinet members' wives. What the hell, if I have a back-door public I don't care. As long as people like my own cook read...
Muscle for Buick. Credit for the new cars goes to President Curtice and Design Boss Harley Earl. At 60, Curtice is probably the best auto salesman in the world, though he never personally sold a car in his life. He believes that style, plus power and the razzle-dazzle send-off of the Motorama, is the way to sell cars. When Curtice became Buick boss in 1933, Buick was making only 40,621 cars a year, and buyers turned up their noses at the design...
MERGER may be in the offing between the $350 million Frisco System and the $103 million Central of Georgia. The two railroads would connect at Birmingham, and complement each other's business; the Middlewestern Frisco would send its trains east to the Atlantic and the Georgia operate 1,000 miles westward. Talk is at the stage where Frisco President Clark Hungerford is looking over the Georgia line...
...with him and beat him off, as Hawl did once in World War I when badly wounded. Death enters and Hungerfield does beat him off, but the reprieved woman, who has been begging for Death, is displeased. Vengefully she accuses Hawl's wife of adultery, later tries to send Hawl and herself over a cliff as he drives her home...
...austere rules of conduct. But Lloyd and Hana-ogi break all the rules and become lovers. The affair that results is an obstacle race with tragedy. Social pressures bedevil the pair; so do officers' wives, Army regulations and Lloyd's father ("Y'can't send half-Jap boys to the Point"). Finally, Hana-ogi is sent to another dancing post and Lloyd is railroaded back to the U.S. and his pre-fling fiancée, a general's daughter. He is a sadder and presumably a wiser...