Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Word leaked out that the State Department early this month instructed customs men at U.S. points of departure to keep their eyes peeled for an ex-diplomat and Far Eastern expert who once traveled broadly and freely: Johns Hopkins Professor Owen Lattimore, who has no passport to leave...
...Mount Holyoke's Cornelia C. Coulter, 66, professor of classics and expert in the field of Renaissance Latin. Her new assignment: Hiram (Ohio) College...
...Pittsburgh last week, Wright was identified as the man who had passed some stolen articles. In his home, police found thousands of dollars worth of goods. Back in jail, Wright said simply: "With me, it just didn't work." Dr. Edward E. Mayer, Allegheny County court behavior expert, went further: in his opinion there was never any reason to believe that it would work, because a lobotomy reduces self-control...
Serious musicians and the president of the Society of Friends of the Concertgebouw were deemed expert enough to judge the power and precision of the grinders, their genius with operatic potpourris, popular marches, sentimental fluff. The judges toured the pierement line in a black-and-yellow carriage, while thousands of Amsterdammers jostled to watch and listen. The first inspection was, for exterior shine; next came a look at the innards. Finally, while the crowds cheered their favorites and mocked at breakdowns, the judges cocked an ear to the music and an eye to grinding technique...
Manning is a self-taught expert on many subjects, and occasionally astounds his guests. On one trip across with New York's ex-Representative Joe Baldwin, he and Baldwin traded lines from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Manning puts his best social foot forward dancing. He has standing orders with the chief steward to steer the best dancers in his direction. Says Manning with a grin: "The only reason I'm on these ships is that I can tango...