Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind Gretchen Merrill's victory were seven years of hard work. A perfectionist, emulating the career of her childhood heroine and present tutor, nine-time national champion Maribel Vinson, Miss Merrill has led a Spartan life during skating seasons. She goes to bed at 7 o'clock so she can be up at 6:30 for practice before school; diets on steak, spinach and milk to keep herself in shape. Her free-skating routines she maps out on paper and tries out at home in her stocking feet, taking her split jumps over a sofa...
Last month, while in California training under Tutor Vinson, Gretchen was asked to give a skating exhibition at an Army air base. "They gave me six encores," she recalls. "And I didn't have a sixth encore planned so I went to the microphone and said 'What will it be, boys?' They all shouted 'The Strip Polka.' Well, I asked for it. The music started and I made it up as I went along. The boys kept shouting at the right places. When they yelled 'Take it off! Take it off!' I lifted...
Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, piped up that he would appoint a subcommittee to study the "development and acquisition" of bases in French, Netherlands and Japanese possessions. Again (see p. 23) it was not a good week for the Brotherhood...
Even when the outlook was blackest, short, cocky William S. Jack always knew everything would turn out all right. The worst was nine months ago when the profit-probing Vinson committee rooted out the fantastic salaries and bonuses of Jack & Heintz Inc., catapulted President Jack smack into the biggest and juiciest profit scandal of the year. But last week the scandal was forgotten, and upstart J. & H. was riding high as the world's largest maker of aviation starters and automatic pilots...
...real success at 54, Jack still likes the floppy, open-collared shirts, breezy sport shoes and pungent phrases picked up in his prizefight days. A prodigious worker, he rarely sleeps more than four hours a night. The Vinson committee did change Jack's ideas about salaries. Said he of the salary-limitation order: ". . . We'll back [this] to the limit. If [President Roosevelt] says no salary at all it will be no salary. . . . There's only one thing we'll be satisfied with-that's winning...