Word: shoeing
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...Democratic faithful and their labor-union allies has always held a lot of truth. But Daley has professionalized the city by hiring skilled managers and burnished its business-friendly image by strengthening connections to global firms like Boeing, which relocated its headquarters to town, and to white-shoe industries like banking, financial services...
...hard to do your best thinking when your feet hurt. That's true even for geniuses. On a crisp fall morning back in 1952, Peter Hulit was tending to business at his shoe store on Nassau Street--the venerable main drag of Princeton, N.J.--when he got an emergency call. Helen Dukas, Albert Einstein's secretary-housekeeper, was on the line. Could Hulit come to the physicist's home? "Dr. Einstein's shoes are hurting him," Dukas said. Recalls Hulit: "I'd never made a house call before or since. But this was Einstein...
Einstein was a familiar figure in town, often dressed in baggy khakis and sweat shirts, his omnipresent pipe creating a halo of smoke around his unkempt hair. Hulit's Shoe Store, a family business begun in 1929, was--and remains--a fixture for residents, and for the students and faculty of Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. The academics bought their desert boots and penny loafers there, and when Princeton's many Nobel prizewinners over the years needed patent-leather shoes for the ceremony in Stockholm, they visited Hulit's too. Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was known...
Setting off for 112 Mercer Street, some five blocks away, where Einstein lived, Hulit took with him a foot measurer and a few pairs of shoes. Dukas admitted the shoe man to the foyer of the smallish two-story house. "Suddenly," says Hulit, "Einstein came down the stairs, smoking his pipe. He shook hands and then reached into his back pocket, pulled out a folded piece of paper and said, 'Zis is ze problem...
Hulit fitted Einstein with black dress shoes that were comfortable. The pleased professor thanked Hulit profusely, signed his name to his shoe drawings and gave the paper to Hulit. The paper still hangs in Hulit's home. Being a proper Princetonian, Hulit gave Einstein shoes that were appropriate for a public appearance. "The man had never had a pair of black shoes in his life," recalls Hulit. "But I knew he was due to appear at an event in New York City pretty soon. I wasn't going to let him go in brown shoes or sneakers. Even...