Word: expertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have an ex-bride and a 4½-year-old daughter. To Farrell, his feet barely steady after an imaginative seven-day excursion through space (in a grounded chamber in Texas), the revelation meant that his penpal romance with a Niagara Falls secretary was "up in the air." An expert on more earthly pleasures, bestselling Novelist Grace Metalious, 33, popped into an Alabama court, picked up a quickie divorce from husband George, three days later married her longtime friend, ex-Disk Jockey Thomas Martin, 33. Said the unblushing authoress of the unblushing Peyton Place: Martin "was the only...
...face was bright pink with carbon monoxide poisoning from the exhaust of the Sno-Cat that he had been driving. Fuchs radioed for help and Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, U.S. Antarctic leader at McMurdo Sound, sent two Navy Neptunes with oxygen and British Physiologist Griffiths Pugh, an expert on carbon monoxide poisoning. The weather made landing impossible, but the oxygen cylinders were dropped, and Dr. Pugh gave detailed instructions by radio. Soon the sick man was better, but even while he was still sick the Sno-Cats moved...
...this scientist-starved country of ours, one wonders what salary Wernher von Braun draws for his missile-expert job to shoot Alpha 1958 into orbit. Would he make more if he grew sideburns and played the guitar ? HANS W. SCHWARK Milwaukee...
...World War II to persuade the proconsuls of Vichy France they must not seriously oppose the impending U.S.-British invasion. After the war, he played a leading role in the settlement of the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Late last week, with the quiet assurance of the expert troubleshooter, Murphy conferred briefly with U.N. Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold, then set off for London to talk with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Britain's "good offices" representative, Middle East Expert Harold Beeley. Though the French insisted the discussion must be limited to Tunisia, Murphy carried...
...embassy, another French officer, one Major Esterhazy, is making arrangements to supplement his army pay with German gold, for which he is ready to betray French military secrets. When one of Esterhazy's treasonable notes is intercepted by French agents, the handwriting is identified by a self-styled expert as that of Captain Dreyfus. When it is pointed out to the expert that the handwriting in the note does not, in fact, resemble that of Dreyfus, he protests indignantly: "Obviously, he disguised...