Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suede-Shoe Problem. Many of the shelter sales are going to solidly established concerns such as Chicago's Wonder Building Corp., whose shelter division is headed by former U.S. Civil Defense Chief Leo A. Hoegh. Says Hoegh: "We, have already sold 5,000 shelters this year, and our volume must now be ten-to fifteenfold over a year ago." Wonder Building offers four all-steel models ranging from $395 to $995. With one plant already working around the clock, Wonder will open a second Chicago factory this week, is laying plans for others in Ontario and on the West...
...instead of cans or bottles. But determined fans still manage to smuggle heavy artillery into the parks. When the Chicago White Sox played host to a group of golf caddies earlier this season, the umpires were pelted with 500 golf balls. Says Umpire Runge: "Once a lady threw a shoe at me. Generally it's the standard stuff-bottles, garbage, cushions, programs. But I turned white in New York a few weeks ago when someone tossed a four-inch bomb behind...
...have gotten all we could possibly get from Joe Louis and still leave him with some hope that he can live," declared an Internal Revenue official last year. But last week the once peerless puncher, currently shuffling through a semi-soft-shoe act in a Detroit cabaret revue, was conscientiously dickering to kick back half his salary (reportedly $1,000 a week) as part payment on his 1946-52 tax arrears of more than $1,250,000. "I owe it. It was my fault," insisted the Brown Bomber. "And with all this Berlin stuff and getting...
Crossed Keys. The service features, on the other hand, ought to intrigue the customers: a 255-car underground garage, extension phones in the bathrooms (an extra washbasin is placed in a separate, screened-off vanity), a refrigerator-bar and an electric shoe polisher in each room. If these gimmicks sound a little too mechanical, at the expense of human service, there will also be multilingual doormen and desk clerks, and, above all, that grand old European institution, the concierge. "The European concierge," one traveler has explained, "is a combination of all-round fixer and archangel, the man who sees...
...admiral (Dean Jagger) has noticed signals flashing from MAX's ship and concludes from the Morse that the Russians are attacking. Whereupon: somebody drinks a quart of bourbon and walks a window ledge. Somebody says, "Follow that gondola." The Russian consul pounds a table with his shoe. Somebody falls into a canal. Somebody proposes marriage. Somebody eats a mothball...