Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bing got a raise to $4 and a reporter's job. At 21, he was sports editor though he didn't know how to score a baseball game. Soon he was pouring out four columns a day as an expert...
...smoking, argued New Orleans' Dr. Alton Ochsner, can be blamed for the increase of cancer of the lung. Surgeon Ochsner, a nonsmoker, was positive. Dr. Charles S. Cameron, A.C.S. medical and scientific director, who does smoke, was not so sure. For every expert who blames tobacco for the increase of cancer of the lung, he said, there is another who says tobacco is not the cause...
Died. P. (for Philip) Hal Sims, 62, hulking (6 ft. 4 in., 300 Ibs.) contract bridge expert; after a heart attack; in Havana. Sims took up the game in the '20s, after thrice winning the National Amateur three-cushion billiards championship, matched an uncanny card sense with a ruthless application of psychology and technical skill to become one of the world's outstanding players. A longtime rival of Culbertson, Sims was a born sportsman and amateur gambler (whist, golf, poker, tennis, horses), once played 59 straight hours of bridge...
Died. Russell W. Porter, 77, famed optics expert and amateur astronomer, longtime (since 1928) art associate for the 200-inch Mt. Palomar telescope; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. A one-time explorer, Porter went with Peary on two polar expeditions, got interested in astronomy while marooned for two years in the Arctic. At the Mt. Palomar project, Porter's three-dimensional scale drawings were a vital factor in the design and construction of the big telescope...
...Accused. Loretta Young as a guilt-ridden professor of psychology trying to outwit a smart cop; an expert thriller, with Robert Cummings and Wendell Corey (TIME...