Word: tacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spur the upswing in residential building, the Federal Housing Administration last week eased credit for home buyers, second such move in two weeks. Most buyers will no longer have to put up cash for closing costs in buying a new house, but can tack them on the mortgage loan, thus lowering down payments. To attract more lenders, the agency increased allowable discounts (to a maximum 3%) on FHA-backed mortgages in 17 Western states, where mortgage money is tight...
...Glamour." Things were not always "so good," either. As Fanny Rose Shore in Winchester, Tenn. (pop. 3,974), she bridled at schoolmates' taunting puns ("Fanny sat on a tack. Fanny rose? Shore!"). Recalls Dinah: "I tell you, it just made me go home nights and chew my pillow." In childhood she suffered from polio, which for six years threatened the full use of her right foot. After some bleak, jobless days in Manhattan, she spent 3½ years indentured to radio's Eddie Cantor, did poorly in several movies (Belle of the Yukon, Up in Arms...
...strives for the accurate spiral that rolls for extra yardage, schools his punters to aim for coffin corner from as far out as 55 yds. A Fenton-trained kicker gauges the wind like an old salt, will boot low against it, high with it. The best ones can even tack the ball into a wind angling up the field to get a few added yards. One other Fenton law: ignore charging linemen. Says he: "It's better to risk a blocked kick than to take your eye off the ball...
...Pulitzer's office: "You ought to get that from the White House." But neither Pulitzer, Lasch nor Billiard would say another word. One insider's explanation: though Lasch is considered "a political twin" of the pro-Stevenson, anti-Eisenhower Billiard, he has taken a more gingerly tack in pursuing his views with a reluctant Pulitzer. This would mean that while the tenets of the paper's liberal policy may not change, they will not be aired so frequently or aggressively...
...grandfather Whitelaw took over the old Tribune in 1872, the Reid family decided to reorganize its closed corporation as a Delaware stock company in order to bring in outside capital, lined up several potential investors. To London last week went Publisher Reid and Pressagent McCrary, for brass-tack talks with multimillionaire Republican John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and lifelong friend of McCrary, who had already expressed interest in helping the paper (with a rumored transfusion of $2,000,000). To keep a sober eye on editorial policy under Editor-Publisher Reid...