Word: began
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Hobson put it somewhat differently. Said he: "My connection with the fashion operation of Harper's Bazaar is at best gossamer. However, at what Cole Porter has described as the charming age of puberty, I ceased drawing racing automobiles and began to draw women, with equal detail, and with what I like to think was even more combustible effect...
...Georgia backwoods, got a job as porter in the Atlanta drugstore of his uncle Asa Griggs Candler. When Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula from the druggist who invented it, young Dobbs became its first salesman, boomed it locally as "Delicious & Refreshing" instead of as a headache remedy, later began to make it a national habit by spending millions (over Candler's objections) on advertising...
...made a fortune in his own right by manufacturing the Hartford shock absorber.) But John early proved his business sense. When his mother offered him 2? a dozen for every fly he killed in the house, he went outside and caught a whole jarful. At 16, John began cleaning inkwells and sweeping floors at Vesey Street for his father. He got $5 a week, but his frugal mother made him pay $1 board and put another $1 in the bank. Says John: "When I got a $2 raise, like a chump I told my mother. She raised my board...
...editor, scenario writer, wartime writer-director of Signal Corps training films. At 32, just out of the Army, he got together a team of bright young moviemakers, wangled financing, started in as an independent producer. Short of money, he slashed costs by rehearsing his actors thoroughly before the cameras began to grind. The B-budget results he turned out -Champion, Home of the Brave, The Men-rated A with both critics and the ticket-buying public, made Hollywood sit up and take goggle-eyed notice...
Partly off-setting the lopsided score on the gridiron, the Band scored a kind of moral victory over the Princetons. Filling silently into the main quadrangle at 6 a.m. Saturday morning, the Band members stopped in front of Blair Hall and began to play "Harvardiana...