Word: vip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of official competition, the four hopes to enter the race open to quads. The Crimson entry for this race. Joe Eldridge, Heller, Gordy Abbott, and Allen, will be the fours only substantial worry if this shift is allowed by ARA officials. So far the ARA VIP's have not vetoed the plan. This quad has had little practice together but all are well versed in the plying of double oars...
...armed services, VIP means "very important person." It means the same thing to Manhattan's VIP Service, Inc., run by a fast-talking ex-Navy officer, William Jeremiah Murphy, and his wife Charlotte Morgan, both 32. Principal stock-in-trade of VIP: red carpeting for the VIPs of U.S. business. By last week, exactly one year after VIP Service was started, Bill Murphy was on his way to becoming a VIP himself. His service was rolling out red carpet at the rate of $100,000 a year...
...VIP Service will tackle almost anything. Once, it arranged a wedding on two days' notice. When nobody showed up to give the bride away, Bill Murphy did it. Last week the Murphys were 1) bringing a VIP's wife and seven children from Iran, 2) hunting a consulate in Manhattan for the Philippines, 3) trying to buy 10,000,000 feet of iron pipe and 50,000 tons of sheet steel for a European VIP...
...Excellency Pedro G. Beltran, the Peruvian ambassador, was Harvard's VIP (Very Important Person) guest Wednesday. He was received by David M. Little '17, Secretary to the University, in the morning and then toured the Yard, the libraries, and Fogg Museum...
Williams bought them. Since then, VIP cartoons have titillated Collier's readers every week. Partch supplies his own gags, considers them the easiest part of his work. To the New Yorker he sells gags alone. He also sells cartoons to Manhattan's PM, draws ads for Wheaties and for Squirt (a California-made drink mixer...