Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journalists paid scant attention to the pictures. Instead they hobnobbed with a group of sixth-graders from Brooklyn's Ethical Culture School who were being lectured on art. "This," said Polevoy, "is the way to run a museum." At Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Foreign Affairs Expert Boris Romanovich Izakov, who is on the editorial board of the monthly International Life, pointed out that Moscow University has 1,800 journalism students-all with free tuition. At Manhattan's City Hall, Mayor Robert Wagner carefully explained how the city is governed by people of various cultures, creeds...
...Emma Sadler Moss, 57, of New Orleans' Charity Hospital, became the first woman in the U.S. to head a major professional medical society when she was installed as president of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists in Chicago. A nationally known expert in parasitology and the study of fungus diseases. Dr. Moss has a fascinating personal medical record. Born in Pearlington, Miss., she started life as a 3-lb. premature baby in a cotton-lined shoebox beside an open fireplace. Since then, she has overcome rabbit fever, acute gangrenous appendicitis, peritonitis, lobar pneumonia and mammary cancer...
...Just any average cornfield wouldn't do," a publicity release explains. "To recreate for people the world of their childhood wonders ... the producers got an agricultural expert . . . October-maturing corn had to be raised by July 14 . . . 2,100 stalks. 14 neat rows . . . hand-planted, hand-fed, hand-watered . . . reached the skyscraping height of 16 feet." Not only is this hyperbolic flora somewhat higher than is necessary-the eye of the average elephant is only about eight feet from the ground-but also it is of such rich green pluperfection that it looks like nothing more than a cardboard...
...Mildred Albert, affectionately called "our Dean," whose spirit pervades the entire publication. Accustomed as we are to the misuse of the phrase "unusual versatility," it is obvious that no other words could describe Mrs. Mildred Albert. A graduate of the Sargent School of Physical Education, a former posture expert, a family woman of "considerable social activity," she also has "professional interests" which include lecturing to women's clubs and other groups on "various aspects of feminine charm and graceful living." "Graceful living" along with "Natural Femininity" are the two criteria by which "Natural Femininity" are the two criteria by which...
...where Walter Winchell was beginning his labors in the vineyard of gossip. The meeting of Sullivan and Winchell was explosive. Out of their four years together on the Graphic grew a feud that lasts to this day. Says Ed: "Winchell's all through-and I'm an expert on Winchelliana. I've followed him like a hawk. He's a dead duck. He couldn't be resuscitated by injections at half-hour intervals...