Word: bootstraps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hustling Philadelphia A's kept pecking away at the win bag, but never seemed quite able to beat the Yankees when it counted most. In Cleveland, the World Champion Indians were still trying to figure out how they happened to be trailing by six games (after a bootstrap pull-up from seventh to second place). But nothing matched the Boston Red Sox's consternation; the Yankees were calling them "cousin" after walloping them in five games...
...paying herself $450 a month, employs her husband of three months, ex-G.I. Jack Stewart, as advertising director. Some of her issues look as cluttered as the inside of a stenographer's purse, but the stenographers seem to like it that way. The contents run to bootstrap success stories, needlepoint notes, advice on hairdos and boy friends, with a confidential editor's memo printed in Miss Oliver's own Gregg shorthand...
...Postmaster. But one era's highway is apt to be the next era's rut: Ben Hibbs found the magazine freighted with 8,500-word "short" stories, long "bootstrap" opuses on Men Who Made the Grade, a rather-be-right GOPolicy that wasn't confined to the editorial page, an audience that had grown old with Lorimer. Two weeks before Hibbs took over, the price went up to a dime. Hibbs and his 29-year-old managing editor, Robert Fuoss, set out to capture a younger audience with women in some of the seats. (Lorimer...
...from Pugwash. To match its whoop-de-do student body, U.B.C. has a robust president. He is Dr. Norman Archibald MacRae MacKenzie, a bootstrap scholar, brilliant organizer and a man who gets what he wants. When Ottawa phoned one day last fall giving permission to use abandoned Army huts on the campus, "Larry" MacKenzie chuckled: he had carted them off and put them on campus some weeks before...
...Francisco's possemen are the best drilled. Probably the most swashbuckling group of two-gun capitalists that ever pulled a bootstrap, its 35 members include George J. O'Brien, treasurer of Standard Oil Company of California; Roy Bronson, attorney for Aluminum Company of America; Charles S. Howard Jr., son of Seabiscuit's owner; Tom Bacon, for whose grandfather the University of California's Bacon Hall is named; Bob Holliday, ex-publisher of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin...