Word: toes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Railroad Tycoon Robert R. Young, in the midst of a fight for control of the New York Central, last week got something close to a toe hold on control of another road, the $797 million Missouri Pacific Railroad. The Mopac went bankrupt in 1933, and four times the Interstate Commerce Commission has drawn up reorganization plans for it. Young, whose Alleghany Corp. owns 49% (396,000 shares) of Mopac's common stock, has helped to have the plans overturned every time, either before the ICC or in court. The reason: while the plans called for bailing out the system...
...forefinger and the forward head bob. Du Mont's Paul Dixon strikes the folksy note by chewing gum, rubbing his nose and garbling his syntax. Bob Crosby is a hands-in-pockets man, but he also shoots his eyebrows, ducks his head winningly and rocks on heel and toe. His cast struggles to be homespun, and his young singer, Allan Copeland, is loaded with boyish humility...
...book of poems, stumbled on a salesman's suitcase containing one gross of "ladies' undies." Fortified with "a few pints," Joyce took the underwear to the red-light district and hurled it into the bed of "the mistress of Sweeney the greengrocer . . . As he did so, his toe struck the night jar or 'chamber' and it rang musically." Gogarty and Joyce woke next morning lying side by side in a potato field, and the poet's first words, says Gogarty, were: "I have the title for my book of poems-Chamber Music...
...busy from io to 7, six days a week. Its entrance hall is always acrawl with teen-agers in woolen practice tights, knitting, gossiping, giggling between sessions. Many of them take lessons every day (cost: some $450 a year). After their third year, the girls put on their first toe slippers; after their seventh or eighth, the most talented pupils are ready for positions in the company...
...dictating he likes to sit on the edge of the desk and swing a putter or a nine iron. Or sometimes he slips a specially designed 5-lb. weight over the toe of his left shoe, and swings the leg back & forth to exercise the knee which he injured during his West Point football career...