Word: shoestringer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After weekends, when the population is back to normal, Wellesley is as busy as an A. & P. "Don't panic," the girls tell each other as pre-exam work piles up. But some girls do panic, and a few secretly resort to "bennies" (benzedrine). Otherwise, they worry about their...
After more than a year of production, and more financial trials and tribulations than a cross-eyed auditor, Ivy Films next week will preview its shoestring celluloid fantasy, "A Touch of the Times."
With a big list of backers,* Parton had bought eight community sheets and shopping guides, then merged them into one citywide newspaper with sub-editions for each major suburb. Eventually he had hoped to convert the Independent into a daily. But advertising had come in too slowly, and Publisher Parton...
75. A shoestring documentary film, which audience enthusiasm boosted into national distribution, is the poignant Story of a young Negro boy:
Overnight, the decision made potentially big businesses of Slick Airways and the Flying Tiger Line, which are among the strongest survivors of all the shoestring lines that scudded across U.S. skies at war's end. But neither 28-year-old Earl Slick nor Bob Prescott let it take his...