Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...quite so heavily sentimental as an old college athlete, especially an old footballer. To Manhattan's Dean Hill (Georgia Tech '12), football is the old-time religion. He helped found New York's Touchdown Club to foster good-fellowship among Varsity lettermen, takes flying tackles at journalists who refer to an "All-American" instead of an "All-America" footballer. For 13 years Dean Hill has rummaged through old bookstores and trunks, clipped yellowed papers and magazines, assembled one of the world's finest collections of footballiana...
...Syracuse may well serve as an inexpensive guinea pig for Macy's in Manhattan. If successful, it may breed a flock of "Macy's of Middletowns," help bolster Macy's hard-won earnings-3% last year on sales of $130,433,687. It is the foster child and will be the personal care of Macy's untitled new executive, Richard Godfrey Roth, who went to the store last January from Cleveland's Wm. Taylor Son & Co. Small, kinky-haired Retailer Roth will supervise the Syracuse venture from Manhattan...
...pertinacious vagabonds. It has established New Englanders as grim, laconic moralists. According to Young People it takes an act of God to reveal the goodness in either. When Joe and Kit Ballantine (portly Jack Oakie and aging Charlotte Greenwood), a veteran song & dance team, decide to give their dimpled foster daughter Wendy (Shirley Temple, retired) a solid New England background, they leave the footlights for a Vermont farm. In the obvious conflict that ensues, the natives win hands down...
KATHARINE FOSTER...
Said a solemn statement, published last week in the Communist Daily Worker (circ. 48,601) over the signatures of Chairman William Zebulon Foster and Secretary Earl Browder of the Communist Party: "As of today's issue ... the Daily Worker . . . ceases to be the official central organ of the Communist Party. We believe . . . that the Daily Worker merits and should receive the ... continued . . . support of all American progressives . . . including of course the Communist Party...