Word: stints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arizona-born Hector Escobosa drew his first bead on the business world as a schoolboy window dresser (at no pay) for San Francisco's cavernous Emporium. While attending the University of California nights, he moved on to sales promotion and dress buying at Hale Brothers, and after a stint as vice president and manager of Kansas City's big-volume Jones department store, became boss...
Pete's" gin-drinking night life finally finished him in Philadelphia. He was dealt to the Chicago Cubs after the 1917 season, and after a brief stint as a sergeant in the A.E.F. came back to win 123 games for them in seven seasons. But Old Pete and Cub Manager Joe McCarthy were unable to see eye to eye on training regulations, so Alex the Great was sold for the waiver price ($4,000 at the time) to the Cardinals...
Four years later, at 43, Old Pete was finally washed up and tragically on the downgrade. He tried the minors, did a stint with the bearded baseball barnstormers of the House of David and constantly talked of a comeback. At 50 he was still pitching semi-pro ball. In 1940, two years after he had become the ninth man voted into Baseball's Hall of Fame, he was discovered by a newspaperman on Manhattan's 42nd Street, working in a flea circus. Quipped Old Pete: "It's better than having 'em live...
...Real Service." Last week, when William Todhunter Hall got through his weekly stint, a real-life college president -Frederick L. Hovde, of Purdue University-came to the microphone. On behalf of the national fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, Hovde presented the Colmans with a scroll in "appreciation for your accurate and intelligent delineation of campus life ... a real service to education...
First Taste. Hecht got his first taste of publishing as manager of the Cornell Era in 1917, whetted his appetite during World War I by a stint under Propaganda Boss George Creel. At war's end, while doing settlement-house work in his spare time, Hecht founded Better Times (still the official organ of the New York Welfare Council) and got the idea for a magazine to help parents give their children better care and training...