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...must be instantly ready to use any one of 24 signals to indicate any of 61 fouls and penalties; he must know the complex rule book of football by heart. As one of the top men in the trade, Referee Paul Swaffield sums it up with a craftsman's pride: "You can't very well be a dummy and be a referee." In exchange for his package of virtues, the good football official gets the reward of an afternoon's exercise, a nice (up to $125) fee and his name in small type at the bottom...
...postwar Germany, husky, bull-necked Master Sergeant John C. Woods of San Antonio had gone about his business with a craftsman's pride and enthusiasm. As official U.S. hangman, he credited himself with more than 300 successful executions, topped off his career four years ago by hanging ten of the Nazi leaders condemned in the Nürnberg trials. "Never saw a hanging go off any better," he said cheerfully afterwards. He was not disturbed when bald, squat Julius Streicher, the Jew baiter, had snarled at him: "The Bolsheviks will hang you, too, some...
...embody in the ceramics he is making nowadays. Braque and Picasso were once Montmartre pals, painted almost indistinguishable cubist pictures. After the two parted, Braque stuck with cubism, gradually developed it into the tricky, fluid and elaborate medium of expression he employs today. In his spotless Paris studio, Craftsman Braque works at his complex, heavily textured canvases slowly and with obvious enjoyment. "The fun," he says, "is that when you begin a picture you never know what it's going to look like. Each new work is a journey into the unknown." The Terrace represented a twelve-month...
Genuine Priest. Novelist Power, 41, is not yet an expert craftsman. When he reports Father Cawder's metaphysical probings, his writing often goes dead and resembles a religious disputation more than a novel. When he should be driving his story to its climax, he lets it creep along. As recompense he offers some marvels of observation: the tawdry circus carnival, the chatter of unworldly nuns, and Father Cawder himself in all his miserable genuineness. Father Cawder may never become a cardinal-nor The Encounter ever match The Cardinal in sales-but Author Power has told a good, unsentimental story...
...wins the case was a rich treat of tasteful theatrical ham. But the grand-mannered role is so patently written to be played across footlights that, before the lifelike intimacy of the camera, even a technically flawless performance by Robert Donat fails to inspire belief. Usually an adept dramatic craftsman, Scripter Rattigan also runs up a debt to his audience that he never pays. The Winslow boy is finally cleared, but the movie fails to clear up the mystery of how such a volume of seemingly damning evidence came to be lodged against...