Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times to hunt a "person of exceptional ability" to sit on its board of directors. Starting salary: $25,000 a year. All anyone had to do to land the job was get the company 15,000 Ibs. a month of four different kinds of rayon yarn. Only the textile industry knew what that condition meant: an extreme improbability. By last week, rayon yarn was so scarce that the scramble for it made the 1946 nylon search look like an Easter-egg hunt...
Kiss of Death. A hard, cold yarn with Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, and vivid, real-life settings (TIME, Sept...
...When Harvard Came of Age" steals the issue. Norman S. Poser has spun the several threads of Cambridge life during President Eliot's early reign into a completely readable yarn. The perfect compound of serious aspects, such as Eliot's introduction of the professor's name into the course booklet, with light strokes from the local color of the day makes it tops for its kind. If the description of the hazers' "Bloody Monday" doesn't amuse, the tales of erstwhile room decor surely will...
Kiss of Death. A hard, cold yarn about a burglar who turns stool pigeon, with Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, and vivid real-life settings (TIME, Sept...
Gauntlets and Grease. Next day, before breakfast coffee had well settled in pollywog bellies, a full-whiskered Neptunus Rex arrived on the fantail. He was attended by Davy Jones and Queen Amphitrite (a tough, blond Marine sergeant wearing enormous falsies and rope-yarn hair). As No. 1 Pollywog, Truman was first-but was let off easy. He was merely ordered to give his autograph to each member of Neptune's court, and to furnish his staff with Corona cigars forever. Margaret was directed to lead a group in Anchors Aweigh, which she did falteringly...