Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this careful attention to detail brings Gorgeous George upwards of $70,000 a year. He doesn't seem to mind playing his swishy role. But he steps out of character whenever anybody asks nosey questions about his wife and two kids: "Let's leave the better half of my life outa this...
...repeat courses merely because they are offered in separate schools. Time is too short to allow duplication of the program. Insofar as thoroughness of education goes, rest assured that the medical schools anticipate no preliminary training beyond the stated requirements, and therefore discuss all relevant material in far greater detail than that taught in College...
Facts & Good Sense. At 46, Gallup is still the rumpled, well-fed Iowa boy who first came east to make his fortune. Tweedy, balding, good-humored, unhurried, he talks earnestly in a deep, Midwestern voice, addresses everyone indiscriminately as "my friend." A hard worker, he hates detail, refuses to read memos and rarely answers letters. He is a tablecloth sketcher. He is so absent minded that before he leaves for an appointment his secretary gives him a neat card telling him where & when to go and how to get there...
...Sabartés filed the note away, along with scraps of dialogue by the master, and embedded them all in Picasso: An Intimate Portrait (Prentice-Hall; $5), a book out this week. Sabartés evidently thinks that every detail and every chit of paper involving the artist is of equal value; his Portrait is loaded with pointless details about Picasso's living arrangements, his day-to-day existence and his favorite cafés. But the dull stretches are offset by Picasso's remembered obiter dicta. Samples...
...Many Died? Author Jones tells the long story in chronicled detail: the disappearances (till bodies turned up later); the killings in "justified self-defense"; the kidnaping and executions. One day in 1882 the Hatfields intercepted seven peace officers who were taking some of Old Randolph McCoy's sons to jail for the knifing of a Hatfield. The youngest McCoy began to cry. Said Wall Hatfield gruffly, "I'm not going to hurt you." But next day the wounded Hatfield died. His kinsmen turned on the hostages. The bodies of Tolbert, Phamer and young Randolph McCoy were found tied...