Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Otherwise, my inebriated companion may have been right. At any rate, he seemed to think that some of his schoolmates were "real shoe." In New Haven this is a good thing...
Whatever "shoe" may be, this fellow said Dick Winterbauer was it. This Winterbauer threw 12 passes, completing nine of them. Three went for touchdowns, and he gained 165 yards, or 14 more than Harvard gained, running and passing, in the entire contest. Winterbauer played about thirty minutes...
...Clothing Store. White clerks began counting their days at idle five-and-ten counters. Some clerks lost their jobs. Merchants advertised special sales, open credit, looked in vain for expected "sympathy motorcades" of white shoppers from other Alabama towns. Says Proprietor L. M. Hill, who is closing his shoe store: "What's the sense of losing money forever? Business is off 50% and it doesn't look like it's coming back...
Colonel & Teddy Boy. The reader may feel surprised that Kennie, the moron Teddy boy, should pal around with characters spouting Blake and Dostoevsky, until Wilson's subtle point is clear. His fantasies of violence and his vision of life march-suede shoe by scuffed boot-the same dark path. Cleverly, Author Wilson both evokes and deplores the spirit that may find words among intellectuals and find action in the Teddy boy. To make his point, Wilson introduces a figure of the old order, one Colonel Lambourn, who carries about maps of mysterious defense zones and obscure treasure troves...
...Geraldine Veronica ("Jerry") Stutz, 33, vice president since 1955 of I. Miller retail stores, 17-store subsidiary of General Shoe Corp., one of the world's largest shoe companies, was named president of Henri Bendel Inc., swank Manhattan specialty store with annual sales volume of about $5,000,000. She succeeds Ben Willingham, General Shoe vice president on temporary loan to Bendel, who will remain as director. Tall (5 ft. 6 in.), svelte (no Ibs.) and unmarried, Jerry Stutz was educated in Chicago's St. Scholastica convent school, won a dramatics scholarship to Mundelein College, where she switched...