Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first told her story to Correspondent William Rospigliosi of our bureau last spring. When I arrived, she had just received two letters from TIME readers. One, from Mrs. Betty Jane Davidson, of Bluefield, West Virginia, said that a food package was on its way and asked for shoe and clothing sizes for everybody in the family. The other, from Bernice Sherman, of Bolton Landing, N.Y., also asked for clothing measurements...
...Pasadena, Calif, headquarters of Joyce, Inc., all this global shoe-fitting last year added up to a thumping gross of $8.4 million. This year's sales are so good that Joyce, already the world's largest maker of wedgie playshoes for women, expects its overall gross to approach $20 million...
...Brooklyn and Back. Bill Joyce was working for a West Coast finance company when he decided to be his own boss. After a look at 100 different businesses, he picked shoes. He lined up pledges of $150,000 in venture capital to buy a small Brooklyn shoe factory, arrived in New York to close the deal just as the stock market crashed in 1929. His pledges soon evaporated...
Tubby, benign Pierre Monteux, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, came asaving. Last fortnight, his shoe-button eyes shining, Monteux was in the pit at Amsterdam's Stadsschouwburg theater. Onstage as Orfeo was Kathleen Ferrier (TIME, March 14), the English girl whose sumptuous contralto has earned her first title to the role. The rest of the cast, including a first-rate soprano named Greet Koeman, was Dutch...
...best thing in the show is Ray Bolger, who dances in his own long-legged, rag-doll fashion-without even trying to imitate the crisper style of Jack Donahue. In one scene, as elegantly leggy as a giraffe, he ambles and ogles his way through a wonderful soft-shoe shuffle. Whenever Bolger is on hand, Silver Lining turns to pure gold. Otherwise, it is richly colored, but only medium-grade...