Word: cobblers
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...time she was 18, she had been a hairdresser, milliner, pawnshop clerk, librarian, even a cobbler. But having sung on the side all the while, she felt ready to try out for Blanche Coleman's all-girl band. "Good pipes," they told her, "but can you play a bass?" Fortunately for Dankworth and her later career, she could not. Even with Dank-worth's band, she felt after a few years like a "necessary evil" and decided that it was necessary to strike out on her own. What she found waiting for her out there was mostly straight...
...Freeze-dried food, including such delectables as shrimp cocktail ($2.50 for two servings), beef Stroganoff, blueberry cobbler, Western omelet and chocolate ice cream. Hikers with smaller pocketbooks still use the older dehydrated soups and vegetables, along with wheat germ and oatmeal...
...Perces were killed, including Red Wolf's mother and sister. Finally, on Oct. 5, 1877, Chief Joseph surrendered to the cavalry in Montana's frigid Bear Paw Mountains with the words: "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever." Red Wolf became a cobbler, country musician and farmer. In 1967, he returned to Big Hole and turned the first shovelful of dirt for the visitor center at Big Hole Battlefield National Monument...
Boghosian's own roots were far removed from Grecian lore. The son of an Armenian cobbler, he grew up in New Britain, Conn. After a stint in the Navy, he attended college under the G.I. Bill, finishing up with a year under the "hard but kind" tutelage of Bauhaus Master Josef Albers at Yale. Now 43, he teaches sculpture himself at Dartmouth. He first became interested in Orpheus during college days, and printed a small portfolio of woodcuts, accompanied by his own poetry. Years later, while he was picking up driftwood on a Provincetown beach, the story of Orpheus...
Staticmanship is the way to avoid the disastrous final promotion. It is a stratagem summed up by the classic injunction: "Cobbler, stick to your last." Peter himself, author of two serious books on disturbed children, thinks that one way he has avoided rising to final placement himself is by turning down lucrative consulting offers. This is known as Peter's Parry, and he admits that if most people employed it they would be nagged to distraction by their wives. A more practical technique is Creative Incompetence, or "creating the impression that you have already reached your level of incompetence...