Word: towing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seated massively at his desk that day in 1905, John Pierpont Morgan seemed lost in thought. He hardly even bothered to look up when his nephew Junius appeared before him with a slim, grey-eyed girl in tow. "Uncle," said Junius, "this is Miss...
Eighteen players, accompanied by their coach, a trainer, tow managers, and one publicity director, will make the southern junket. The men who will tackle the six-games-in-six-days schedule include pitchers Ira Godin, Ralph Hymans, Roy Meears, and Barry Turner; catchers Cliff Crosby and Web Durant; infielders Walt Coulson, Harry Cavanaugh, Mort Dunn, Ernie Mannino; and outfielders John Caulfield, Steve Howe, Hal Moffie, Dick Kobusch, Gordy Ellis, and Kevin Reilly...
...little insight and maturity, Guy Hudson unsuccessfully bucks the sham and hypocrisy of the school's ingrown existence, causing a mild upheaval in the Faculty. He is all too glad to leave The Academy in June with his pregnant sweetheart (a teacher at the neighboring Girls' School) in tow...
Four days later a C-54 tried again, this time releasing a glider and two-man crew for an air-ground pickup. Twice the tow plane managed to snare the glider on a pickup line. Both times the glider broke through the icy crust and bogged down in the snow; the pickup line snapped. The glider's crew joined the nine stranded men on the icecap. More food and clothing were dropped, along with heaters, fuel and a collapsible plywood shelter. The shivering airmen burrowed into the snow, rigged a canvas roof overhead as protection against the gale...
Canada's brash, young (29) Irving Margolese ("Irving of Montreal"), who had parlayed a tailor shop with three employees into an estimated $275,000-a-year ski clothes business, even brought out tow capes to keep skiers warm on the cold ride up the slope. (Tow attendants will send the capes down on empty chairs.) He also went after customers with flashy tailormades up to $225. Parisian Dressmaker Carven designed "kiss-not" hoods that left an opening only for the nose and eyes...