Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expert on the American Civil War and the South, Stampp is the author of two books, "Indiana Politics During the Civil War," published in 1949, and "And the War Came," published...
...captured the admiration of the racing world's two indispensable castes, the expert horsemen and the two-buck bettors. Every time he goes, bettors by the thousands trust him to the extent of wagering $1 to win a measly 5¢. A South American millionaire recently produced figures to prove that he could have added more to the family fortunes last year by betting Native Dancer to show (a minimum of 5% profit) than by investing in securities or playing the stock market...
...Memphis, Tenn. that "ushers can louse up the service or make it more worshipful." No good usher, said Hosman, uses strong after-shave lotion, wets his thumb when handing out bulletins, or grasps a lady around the waist or by the arm in showing her to her pew. Expert Hosman's advice on how to get people to sit up front: don't give out the bulletin right away, but use it as "bait" to lure back-pew addicts down the aisle. Added Hosman: "Ushering is not a job for women." Reasons: their high heels slow them down...
...Whitley Collins, 56, a tireless, hard-driving financial expert, was elected president of Northrop Aircraft, Inc., maker of the F-89D Scorpion, all-weather, rocket-armed interceptor. Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Collins started as a banker, was a vice president and general manager of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. by the time he was 31. Today he is still a partner of the Collins-Powell Co., an aircraft-parts sales organization he founded in 1931; president of the Radioplane Co., which he founded in 1938 and which now makes target drones...
Guedel has also become an expert on public taste. Says he: "Actually, your radio and TV audience is never bigger than five or six people. So what it amounts to is a visit to people's homes. And those people must want you to come back and visit them every week. There must be a communion." Explains Linkletter, who developed the People Are Funny show with Guedel: "We don't just get the people up there to make fools of them. We play on their emotions and try out their judgment. Gradually, through the years...