Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they are improving. CBS in particular has hired commentators and camera directors with some knowledge of the game. A television announcer has to be more of an expert than his opposite number on radio: there is no point in describing what the audience can see for itself; the announcer has to interpret for the ignorant without annoying the informed...
Formerly director of the New York Botanical Gardens, Professor Merrill is an internationally-noted expert in Philippine and Far Eastern plant life. He spent 20 years in the Philippines as a teacher and government botanist, and came to Harvard...
...been doing their best to bring about a modern Truce of God to protect the holy places of Palestine from destruction in Arab-Jewish fighting. This week as Arabs, Jews and U.N. officials negotiated their way toward a permanent truce for all Jerusalem, the Vatican sent one of its expert trouble shooters to the Holy Land...
...help unlard the A.P.'s avoirduprose, Gould hired Readability Expert Dr. Rudolf Flesch (TIME, Feb. 16). There are signs also that the A.P. is getting over the timidity that makes it (for fear of offending one of its 3,900 members) almost objectionably objective. "We have a duty," said Gould's log, "to give the reader some idea of how near the truth a broadcast or communique may be . . ." And the A.P. is encouraging its own Managing Editors Association to find fault. Many an M.E. thinks the world's best news service could still be considerably improved...
...fact-fictional story of the Soviet-Canadian atomic spy ring, and of how it was cracked (TIME, March 11, 1946). It centers on the Soviet Embassy Code Clerk Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews with a short haircut) who did the cracking. An odd blend of naivete and expert craftsmanship, the picture is an above-average spine-chiller. It is also topnotch anti-Communist propaganda...