Word: shoestringing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small, neat, pink-cheeked Headmaster Frank Hackett launched Riverdale on a shoestring. As a young assistant headmaster of a Manhattan school, he brought a group of small boys home from an outing one day, found an older boy on the school steps dead drunk.
That the Little Fellow eventually becomes a multimillionaire wearing two fur coats, one over the other, is unimportant. What matters are the delicious beads of humor strung on the thread of his unique personality. Chaplin cinemaddicts will recognize with tears of joy two famed scenes: trapped by a blizzard in...
This week, when Savannah Shipyards, Inc. clears its credit arrangements with Savannah bankers, Frank Cohen will be off on the third lap of a meteoric defense career. Frank Cohen's company, Empire Ordnance Inc. (whose stockholders own Savannah Shipyards), is less than one and a half years old. It...
Tyrus Raymond Cobb, the fiery Georgia Peach whom the Detroit Tigers bought for $750 in 1905, was a daredevil base-runner, a shoestring-catching outfielder, a dazzling hitter. He could go from first to third on an infield out. On one afternoon, in six times at bat, he hit two...
Last month in Scotch Plains, N.J., a shoestring firm called Flanders Hall published a 115-page book called The 100 Families that Rule the Empire. Purportedly, it exposed the planet's best-known interlocking directorate-the British upper classes. Inadvertently, it exposed another, more modest, but significant.