Word: shoestringing
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High Finance. Dapper Manchester Boddy, 51, acquired the News in 1926 on what he calls a "borrowed shoestring." Boddy was general manager of the Los Angeles Times's book-publishing department, then he heard about the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News. Published by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., it was then...
"I hate to disappoint people who expect something sensational . . . but trick plays of the shoestring variety don't constitute a successful football system. You've got to go back to the bedrock of blocking, tackling, and position play, and rehearse your kids until they are letter perfect in their assignments...
Up to this week the Marines had killed five times as many men as they had lost. This they had done in three battles and many minor patrols. The first took place to the east of the beach head when a whole battalion of Japs tried to force the Tenaru...
On Guadalcanal U.S. air power has been a shoestring magnificence. U.S. planes operate from a runway built by the Japs. The planes are maintained by mechanics who work blacked out under ponchos with flashlights. The pilots go out on two or three missions a day. They sleep out a chunk...
Started two years ago on a shoestring by Actor-Coach Vladimir Sokoloff, the Beachwood Theater Studio has tried out plays by such big names as Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) and Elliott Nugent (The Male Animal) with only mild success. With Cry Havoc it will move this month from its tiny...