Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disfigurement grew out of a perverse sense of beauty. Others offered an ingenious reverse explanation: originally, the duckbilled women had merely tried to make themselves unattractive to marauding Arab slave raiders who were seeking likely harem material. Both explanations are dismissed by French Sociologist Jean-Paul Lebeuf, a longtime expert on African ethnology and prehistory, who believes he has found the real clue in the lore of the upcountry Fali and Sara tribes...
...film script down to a sentimental skeleton. The original film had been aimed at the handkerchief trade; on TV the tear jerking scenes came as fast as in any soap opera. To compensate for his lack of mobility, Director Kulik borrowed heavily from Hollywood's sob expert, Ralph Edwards (This Is Your Life). Just like Edwards, the Lux show employed a tremulous, offstage voice to say such things as, "Yes, you came to New York, Jodie, to lose yourself in hard work . . . And then you ran away to England to forget . . ." Dorothy McGuire tried hard but was never able...
...fund is housed in a mansion, with swimming pool, originally purchased by the Ford Foundation for West Coast headquarters), the fund will soon speed up the spending of its self-liquidating millions. One controversial project looming on Hutchins' list may well demand the counsel of a public-relations expert: a look at censorship, boycotting and blacklisting activities in radio, television and movies...
Around the city room of the New York Daily Mirror, Photographer Bob Wendlinger is known as "The Bridge Expert." Two years ago he chased a police call to Manhattan's George Washington Bridge, arrived in time to get a memorable, prize-winning picture of a young Negro twisting from the outstretched hands of a priest and plunging to his death 250 ft. below (TIME, March 10, 1952). Last week, cruising in the Mirror's radio car, Wendlinger got word of another suicide attempt. A despondent taxi driver called the paper's news desk and said that...
...minutes he talked to the man, finally convinced him not to jump. Then Wendlinger turned his camera over to a cop, extended a helping hand to the man and guided him to other waiting cops, who brought him down. Bridge Expert Wendlinger made only one mistake; he was so busy talking that he took no pictures. But another Mirror photographer took a frontpage picture for his paper (see cut). The photographer: John Hearst Jr., 20, grandson of Founder William Randolph Hearst, and son and namesake of the Hearst-papers' assistant general manager...