Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the shadow-boxing is over, remaining enigmas are: 1) What was the story in the park? 2) Who is Parker? 3) What did he want? 4') What was Pigeons and People all about? Only positive fact is the first-rate characterization of Parker as a superior indigent, expert at crying, bragging, weaseling, bullying, philosophizing, face-saving and putting everybody else in the wrong...
Died. John J. Carty, 71, telephone & telegraph engineer; of heart trouble following an operation; in Baltimore. Wartime director of the U. S. Army's independent telegraph & telephone system in France, post-War vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., he was titled by Newton Diehl Baker "the greatest expert in America on the subject of telegraphic and telephonic communications." In 1915 he completed the first U. S. transcontinental telephone service, provoking Dr. John Huston Finley's poem...
...Union suspended Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, the one-girl track team of Dallas, Tex., on suspicion of having sold an automobile testimonial (TIME, Dec. 19), many an observer reflected that if ever it was logical for anyone to make a living from athletic ability, it was logical for Babe Didrikson, expert exponent of all sports. Last week, while the A. A. U. pondered her case, she announced that they need ponder no longer, that she would turn professional out & out. The Southern A. A. U. soon announced that she was exonerated, reinstated. But logical Babe Didrikson closed her thin lips, shook...
Johns Hopkins' Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood is a cancer expert who always "goes the whole hog" on what excites him. Last week he arranged to blarney & bully the fear out of his patients. This is a recent reversal of Dr. Bloodgood's clinical attitude. Heretofore he has preached: get an early diagnosis, no matter if you must scare the wits out of the people. Anti-cancer propaganda has had a fear motif, condoned only for its salutary effect on a supposedly ignorant, obtuse public...
...dealer, bald Edouard Jonas, Conseiller du Commerce Exterieur de la France, Expert Conseil du Gouverne-ment, has had a brilliant career. An expert in the graceful decadence of the 18th Century, he owns a gallery on the smartest corner in Paris, Place Vendome & Rue Castiglione. He has been appointed director of the Government's new Cognacq-Jay Museum of 18th Century paintings and antiques.* He married the former wife of Cigar Store Tycoon David Schulte, and until six months ago he operated a large and very elaborate shop in New York...