Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born in the Channel Islands, Haley quit school at 16 to go to sea as a telegrapher on a tramp steamer. Later, he cubbed on a provincial paper, did his brief stint on the Times and went up to Manchester to become a reporter on the Evening News. In a short time he was named news editor. He disdained a desk, worked standing up at a breast-high table so he would lose no time dashing off to composing room or editor's office. His nose for news was so sharp that, at 29, he was named editor...
Keep Them Guessing. Eartha returned to the U.S. six months ago, and now, with her role in New Faces and her after-the-show nightclub stint, is as busy as she has ever been in her life...
...gall. Two weeks before the season opened, Loes told Dressen:"You're looking for an opening-day pitcher; you got one right here." As it happened, Loes did pitch in the Ebbets Field opener in relief against the bitter-rival New York Giants. His two-hit, five-inning stint...
...Eastman Kodak Co., President Thomas J. Hargrave moved up to chairman of the board, the youngest chairman (60) in Eastman history, when Perley S. Wilcox, 77, retired. Into the presidency went Albert K. Chapman, 62, a Phi Beta Kappa from Ohio State University who joined the company after a stint with the Army in 1919. Chapman organized the company's development department, moved up through manufacturing to vice president and, in 1943, to general manager and a director of the company. ¶ Charles Fabian Herman Johnson Jr., 45, was elected president of Botany Mills, Inc., to succeed his father...
Actress Eva Gabor explained why she had spent $3,600 for new clothes to wear for 30 minutes twice a week on a midnight disk jockey stint for a Manhattan radio station: "You have to look beautiful to sound beautiful...