Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dislike in New Delhi. Instead of lamenting the end of his 16-year career as a Russian expert, Henderson soon became an authority on the Arab world. He returned to Washington in 1945 to head the office of Near Eastern and African Affairs. When the British Cabinet decided to pull out of Greece, Henderson went to work immediately with his staff and, in a round-the-clock weekend, drafted a plan of aid to Greece and Turkey which emerged as the Truman Doctrine...
...Weight for All. In the most important single race in Brazil's nationwide elections (TIME, Oct. 18), Underdog Quadros was up against ex-Governor Adhemar de Barros. Jânio and Adhemar are both magnificently mustachioed, and Adhemar is almost as expert as Jânio at platform histrionics, but there the resemblance ends. Adhemar, 53, multimillionaire proprietor of a well-oiled political machine, is expensively tailored, hearty of mien and exuberant of speech...
Even the most prosperous poets, said prosperous Poet Ogden (Hard Lines) Nash, sometimes like to "make a little dough" on a sideline. Nash's sideline: guest expert on television panels. Said he: "TV is the biggest racket ever invented. I love it. Half an hour's fun a week-and they pay you for it ... Most of the mail I get is from eleven-year-old children who say 'I loved your book, David Copperfield, please send me your picture...
...expert vaudeville performance was to be expected from Judy; to find her a dramatic actress as well is the real surprise -although perhaps it should not be In such pictures as Wizard of Oz, The Clock and Meet Me in St. Louis, Judy showed the first flutters of a nature that could give and sympathize deeply, even where it could not control. In Star the control is still unsure. But the confidence of the heart-which shows in the sudden warm going-under-now look in the eyes-is impressive. Everything she does is a little overdone...
...Expert. In Corvallis. Ore., Professor Paul X. Knoll of Oregon State College reported sadly that his wife had enrolled in his course in argumentation...