Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regular staff of editors also rounded up a roster of expert contributors, ranging from Herbert Warren Wind in golf and Davis Cup Captain William F. Talbert in tennis to such talented amateurs as Nobelman William Faulkner. The Faulkner story of the Kentucky Derby so impressed Bing Crosby that The Groaner read it in three installments on his radio show...
...clear in my mind and conscience," Talbott insisted, "that my actions have been within the bounds of ethics." He still saw nothing wrong in writing letters on official stationery to solicit business for his partner, Paul Mulligan, an efficiency expert. Talbott, who cleared some $65,000 a year from Mulligan & Co. while in office, planned to get right back to work. Said he: "I'm going back to business and make myself a little dough...
Among the witnesses was stocky, crisp-talking Samuel E. Ewing, general attorney for R.C.A.'s manufacturing and services divisions. He told of a meeting early last December with Talbott's partner, Efficiency Expert Paul B. Mulligan, to discuss the possibility of an R.C.A.-Mulligan contract. Said Ewing: "I endeavored to explain to Mr. Mulligan the problems that we saw in the situation ... He said that he was no lawyer and he did not want to get into that with me. He asked if I objected if he called Secretary Talbott. I said I did not object...
HELL IS A CITY, by William Ard (246 pp.; Rinehart; $2.75), features Timothy Dane, one of the more entertaining and intelligent private eyes, but the real issue is good cops v. bad cops. An expert at big-city political shenanigans, Author Ard is also expert at compact plotting and at dragging readers on a breakneck chase...
Died. Professor Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich, 82, so-so Russian writer (Recollections of the October Revolution), who advanced his Communist Party career as an expert on urban guerilla warfare, served Lenin faithfully as private secretary, survived purges and Stalin to become one of the U.S.S.R.'s oldest Old Bolsheviks; in Moscow...