Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious villain was the veto. Among dozens of resolutions submitted, the one most strongly backed was a plan which had been devised by World Planner (and onetime Bridge Expert) Ely Culbertson. It was endorsed by 16 Senators and 14 Congressmen. It would eliminate the veto in matters of aggression. If the Russians refused to agree, the other nations of the world would set up a revised U.N. without them. Fired with enthusiasm, the Foreign Affairs Committee was all set to stamp it with approval...
Professor Bartlett has been a member of the Harvard Chemistry Department for 14 years, having been appointed full professor in 1946. He is an expert on physical-organic chemistry, and in 1939 received the American Chemical Society award for distinguished contributions to his branch of science...
...detective work ("The thing you've got to have in both is presence of mind"). The Police Department has cited him twice for bravery, once for rescuing two kids from a burning building, the other time for catching two armed bandits with his bare hands. His wife, an expert fencer, has passed her exams for policewoman...
Died. General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, 56, German tank expert who earned the title of "Butcher of Guernica" in the Spanish Civil War, was Rommel's onetime second-in-command of the Afrika Korps and achieved high rank on the Yugoslavs' war-criminal list for his massacres in Serbia; of a heart attack; in Söcking, Germany...
...Author. Norman Mailer attended public schools in Brooklyn, at Harvard studied engineering, shortly after graduation married Beatrice Silverman (later a lieutenant in the WAVES). During the war he served in Leyte, Luzon and Japan, as a clerk, an aerial photograph expert, a rifleman in a reconnaissance platoon, a cook, a baker. Discharged in 1946, he wrote The Naked and the Dead in a year and a half...