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...Craftsman...
...unknown, unsung master craftsman who fashioned TIME'S account of the death of Calvin Coolidge (TIME, Jan. 16): a bouquet of orchids for a piece of reportorial description worthy of the late great (to all newspapermen) Frank Ward O'Malley...
Hollywood knew Paul Bern as an adroit and skilful cinema craftsman. Associate producers generally are not credited for their work, but he was considered largely responsible for MGM's Grand Hotel. Paul Bern came to the U. S. from Germany when he was nine. Educated in Manhattan public schools, he studied further at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, became a theatrical director, went to Hollywood to write scenarios. His work on The Marriage Circle, The Christian, The Dove caused him to be made an executive. In a community founded upon the assumption that to be blatant...
...personalities in German literature of the nineteenth century have evoked more interest and more divergent views than Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Swiss poet and writer of Novellen; stylistic craftsman of genius, narrator of great events, delineator of great characters; and at the same time a paradoxical nature that has been the despair of biographers and critics who have tried to bring order out of the conflicting chaos of his life and work, to find reasons for the distance between this unhealthy, corpulent, shy man and the colossal figures of Renaissance, Reformation, and medieval history, who are the subjects...
...most fortunate of them would know that within it countries of the mind were being discovered, vaster than the lands toward which another Italian was sailing in the same year. Entering, he would have found the flower of Venetian scholarship gathered about a table. On it a skillful craftsman was laboriously fashioning little blocks of metal into the forms of graceful letters, using a manuscript of Petrarch's for his model. What conversation he heard would be unintelligible to him, for these men spoke of business not in volatile Italian but in the old tongue of Pindar and Plato...