Word: leatherizing
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...Agricultural Workers, the Public Workers. With the big United Electrical Workers and the Farm Equipment Workers already purged (TIME, Nov. 14), Murray had only a few more corners to clean: Harry Bridges' Longshoremen's union, the Marine Cooks' & Stewards', the Fishermen, the Fur and Leather Workers, the Furniture Workers, and the little but strategic American Communications Association (telegraph and radiomen...
Finally, the costuming was irritating Lear's robes were well chosen to decline in impressiveness with him, and the women's dresses were appropriate, but most of the men seemed to be wearing leather fish-scales of aprons, and many bore strange headgear. The royal crowns and coronets seemed more than usually cardboard, and the foot soldiers stood out above all others in the flaunting of some extraordinary creations that most resembled the kepis of the Foreign Legion...
Last month, is an informal meet with the University of Massachusetts, big Geoff Tootell picked up a leather-bound brass ball and flipped it 50 feet, 9 7/8 inches, unofficially breaking a Harvard record. Last week, in New York, in the N.Y.A.C. games, Yale's Jim Fuchs put the shot nearly seven feet farther and broke the indoor record . . . and thereby hangs a sad story...
Most offensive of all the characters is an American reporter played by Paul Kelly. This man rushes hell bent for leather through the plot infecting people with 100 percent Americanisms. His sentiments are admirable but I couldn't help wondering why he never got in trouble through his spouting them behind the Iron Curtain with such abandon. Every few minutes the Colonel's party line would prove embarrassingly illogical before the blasts of the reporter...
...terms. At a dinner speech delivered during the height of his career, he succinctly summed up his philosophy: "A man may have many friends, but he will find none so steadfast, so constant, so ready to respond to his wants, so capable of pushing him ahead, as a little leather-covered book with the name of a bank on its cover...