Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bojangles Bill Robinson, past master of the soft shoe routine, packed the Hasty Pudding Club last night in a show for the Naval Training School. There was standing room only in the auditorium as 400 Navy men and their guests watched Bill take time off from his stint at the Mayfair to entertain with his inimitable tapping...
...will attend: Walter S. Montgomery, president of Spartan Mills, Spartansburg, S.C. (cotton goods); Meyer Kestnbaum, executive vice president and treasurer of Hart Schaffner & Marx; Noble A. Cathcart, assistant to the president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.; Roy E. Larsen, president of Time Inc.; Byron Gray, president of International Shoe Co.; H. Leslie Atlass, vice president of Columbia Broadcasting System; Joseph Hazen, vice president of Warner Bros. Also represented is labor by A.F. of L.'s Arnold Zander, C.I.O.'s Richard Deveraux...
...Manpower Commission in New York State at $8,000 a year, ubiquitous Anna Marie Rosenberg, who will quit as regional director of the Social Security Board ($7,500), adviser to Nelson Rockefeller ($6,000), labor-relations consultant for R. H. Macy-Bamberger department stores ($20,000), and I. Miller shoe company...
...York City Health Department will soon investigate reports that athlete's foot is being spread in stores now that more & more women are appearing stockingless to try on shoes. Many shoe dealers are already distressed about the problem, but dare not ask their customers to put on socks before trying on shoes...
...Straumfjord thinks the cause of corns is more complicated than bad shoes. Vitamin A deficiencies are known sometimes to produce tough or calloused skin. Trouble is that vitamin A, unlike vitamins of the B-group, is not soluble in water and thus is not readily diffused through the body's tissues. The pressure of tight shoes cuts down circulation to irritated areas, deprives them of adequate vitamin A and produces corns-even though the body as a whole may not be A-deficient. Dr. Straumfjord has found that large doses of vitamin A usually get rid of corns even...