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More recently Bender served as the master craftsman on a report which made recommendations to improve the College's tutorial and advising system...
...given the mousy lady her later look? Most probably, says Keck, some unknown craftsman of 50 years ago or so who wanted to pretty her up for prospective buyers. In reworking the face, the painter might even have tried for a faithful likeness of Lady Georgiana Gordon: the top picture bore some resemblance to a contemporary drawing of her. But who was the restored lady? Brooklyn hasn't solved that problem...
Ernst Wollweber is a master craftsman. His trade is trouble. A short, pudgy Communist of 52, with a fat, pockmarked face that has rarely been photographed, he sits at a bureaucrat's desk in the former Luftwaffe headquarters in Berlin. Ostensibly, he busies himself with the mundane details of shipping to & from Communist Germany. Actually, Ernst Wollweber is boss of an enterprise called the Wollweber Apparatus, which channels illegal trade in strategic supplies to the Communists...
...George Gainford, was soon talking baseball and skipping an imaginary rope. By the time he walked down the aisle to the ring, jogging rhythmically to some inner melody, the atmosphere of tension and strained horseplay was gone. From the instant the bell sounded, Sugar Ray Robinson was the master craftsman who knew just what he was doing-the best fighter, pound for pound, in the world...
Hugh MacLennan, 44, is probably Canada's top novelist. In the U.S., his books (The Precipice, Two Solitudes) have sold moderately well but have failed to attract as much notice as they deserve. One reason for this neglect may be that MacLennan, like many another modest craftsman, makes poor copy for publishers' publicity. Instead of crusading, shouting or tying the English language into advance-guard knots, he quietly goes about his business, which is to write good, solid novels about Canadians...