Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME had its mind on reporting the news-in this case, the career of an energetic sportswoman, both of whose feet were seldom on the ground while she was playing tennis...
This was in many ways the keynote of Dr. Guthrie's career, for he has always been more of an artist than a theologian (for some years he was an itinerant lecturer on literature), and as much of an individualist as an artist. Because the life tenure of an Episcopalian rector can be terminated only for grave cause, and because he was careful never to set down any of his indiscreet utterances in print, he weathered all the storms that blew around his bushy locks...
...farflung newspaper career already the envy of many a workaday reporter, Paul Gallico last week began another chapter. Back from his snuggery-workshop on the English Channel, Writer Gallico entered the employ of William Randolph Hearst's International News Service. A high-priced super roving reporter, Paul Gallico, whose loyal readership followed him from the sport section of the New York News to the Saturday Evening Post, took as his assignment the Philadelphia child-murder case, described the arraignment of a 19-year-old girl defendant with true sob-stuff...
...four months big, footloose Paul Gallico again resigned from the News, went back to England on savings from magazine writing, after having met Mr. Hearst. In Publisher Hearst he saw "the last of the great kings" for whom "every newspaper man ought to work at least once if his career is to be complete...
Author Sackville-West was their only child. By the time her memories begin, her mother was well launched on a career of making married life interesting. "How my mother puzzled me, and how I loved her!" she declares. Recklessly extravagant in gaudy gimcracks, her mother saved wrapping paper and string, wrote letters on toilet paper. When she got a fresh air mania, she propped open all the doors, ate outdoors, snow notwithstanding. War came "as a personal insult." Her own War service consisted of taking in five wounded Belgians, whom she quickly turned out again as spies because they bored...