Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close race by Republican Christian A. (for Archibald) Herter. The governor-elect is 57, a Harvard man, married to the granddaughter of Charles Pratt, a partner of John D. Rockefeller the elder and one of the founders of Standard Oil. Herter, an able internationalist who did a stint with the State Department (Berlin, Brussels and Washington, 1916-19), once dabbled in publishing (Independent and Sportsman magazines), served in the Massachusetts legislature and has been in the U.S. Congress since...
...London, three years, seven months and some 1,500 performances after the Manhattan opening of South Pacific, Actress Mary Martin stepped out of her role of Nurse Nellie Forbush and turned it over to Nightclub Singer Julie Wilson. The next night Mary was doing a nightclub stint herself. She agreed to do a cabaret skit, including singing a duet (Baby, It's Cold Outside), with Friend Noel Coward. Occasion: a benefit performance for the London Actors Orphanage...
Payoffs. After a World War II stint as a colonel in charge of buying $1 billion worth of Army supplies, Crown started spreading into other fields. He put close to $4,000,000 in cash and notes into Chicago's Palmer House and $250,000 into the Waldorf; with Realtor William Zeckendorf he bought a big tract of land on Manhattan's East Side, with the idea of putting up a big housing development. The deals paid off: the Waldorf, once deep in the red, is now well in the black; the Manhattan land, soon sold...
Trip Abroad. Parker, who likes to describe a fountain pen as "a controlled leak," got his first introduction to foreign markets when he went to France and Germany to study. Later, after a stint as a Navy flyer in World War I, he went to work for the family company, persuaded his father to start a British subsidiary. Said father George later: "We lost $100,000 the first year because we did not understand the British temperament. We have become wiser since...
Lord left the ranks of college teachers even before he got his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1943. After a brief stint with the New York State Historical Association and a tour of duty in the Navy, he moved west to Wisconsin, where he became director of the State Historical Society. There in six years he doubled the society's membership (to more than 3,000), tripled its budget (to more than $300,000), and built it into one of the finest organizations of its kind in the nation. Last week the society was reaching beyond its geographical boundaries...