Word: stints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teen-age Tester. Attractive new publisher Thompson has had to learn plenty of other new jobs in her time. Except for a brief stint in advertising, she has been in the magazine business ever since 1930, when she started with Conde Nast as a $30-a-week assistant in Vogue's promotion department. Before long she was editing both the Vogue Pattern Book and a cheaper one which the company had decided to start. It was such a hit that she sold Conde Nast the idea of a fashion magazine aimed at a cheaper audience than Vogue...
From Winthrop House the four visitors and Reed proceeded to the Mayflower Skeet Club in Holliston (25 miles west of Cambridge) for their weekly practice stint of knocking the clay out of clay pigeons. At the Club, they were joined by Coach Dick Shaughnessey, "Mr. Skeet", as he is known in American skeet circles...
...brains behind the new transmission, like those behind many another Packard innovation, belong to Colonel Jesse G. Vincent, Packard's chief engineer. Unlike most engineers, Vincent never attended college; he quit school after the eighth grade, got his degree from a correspondence school. After a stint with Burroughs Adding Machine Co. and one with the Hudson Motor Car Co., he joined Packard in 1912, became a vice president three years later, specializing in engines...
Atlantic-shuttling Lady Astor, visiting Jesse Jones in Houston, dropped in on Fort Worth, found its huge Consolidated Vultee Aircraft plant the thrill of her trip. She would much rather pitch in and work there, she said, than in the British plane factory where she did a wartime stint...
...After a stint at business school and two years of law school, gregarious, piano-playing Jimmy Walker set out to write songs for a living. He had only one big hit, Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?, but he made a million friends in Manhattan. In 1912, Jimmy married his sweetheart, Janet ("Allie") Allen, to a medley of "Here Comes the Bride" and Witt You Love Me in December? All his life a 10 o'clock scholar, Jimmy was more than two hours late for the wedding. Two years later, after having served...