Word: storing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beneath Greasy's casual air, his sharp wit and his superstitions (he insists on being last to leave the dining room when his men are eating, last to leave the clubhouse, last out of the bus), lies a vast store of football know-how. He knew the kind of T-football he wanted: a combination of great power and flawless execution. In nine seasons with the Eagles, that is the kind he has developed-the prettiest and most deadly T-formation in the business...
...vast store of nervous energy makes it impossible for him to sit still long enough to read anything but business reports. Even while dictating he usually swings a No. 3 iron at imaginary golf balls. At 62, he is still willing to try almost anything once. At Sun Valley, not long ago, he spotted "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the Hollywood restaurateur, on skis, and promptly declared: "If Romanoff can do it, so can I." Soon Hilton was snowplow-ing down the beginners' slope...
Coal Mines & Graveyards. Actually he is not. The son of a Norwegian immigrant, he was born on Christmas Day of 1887 in little (pop. 500) San Antonio, N.Mex. His father, August Holver Hilton, parlayed a jug of whisky into the town's general store, livery stable, and eventually a coal mine, which made him one of the richest men in that part of the country...
...store grown large and prosperous, John Phillips retired and moved to California. The shelf of books in the jeweler's shop had begun as a sideline and turned into a career...
Working under Phillips was something of an experience. According to Ellsworth Young, the present owner, "the store ran more on inspiration than system." For instance, Phillips had a fabulous memory for where he had put his books, and consequently felt no need for keeping them in any particular order on the shelves. The resulting jumble caused his assistants no end of trouble. Phillips also was as much concerned with having people interested in his books as he was with making sales. He would go to any length to turn up a particular edition of Dostoevski or an out-of-print...