Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very famous 'Hotspur' has agreed to come and tell us his secrets." A few days ago these frightfully polite words, rich with Britain's broadest bazaar-opening vowels, issued from blonde Dair Marr, 17, as she introduced Ewr Curling, the Daily Telegraph's horse expert, to 30 of the finest blooded fillies in London. Dair & Co. had cause to hear a betting and breeding lecture. As students at the Cygnets House, the most exclusive finishing school in England, they must learn to "talk politics with Eden at lunch on Monday, ballet with Dame Margot on Tuesday...
Weinberg is less well known as an expert on the stock market. Last May he advised one and all to buy; last week he said that the market was too high: "Some stocks are selling at 50 and 60 times earnings. You just can't do that.'' Weinberg's reputation extends far beyond Wall Street. He has served as a director of so many companies (General Electric, General Foods, Continental Can, Ford, B. F. Goodrich) that he thumbs through a notebook to see on which of 35 boards he still serves. Weinberg has a third field...
Down at Dunster House, the humanities have taken on an exotic cast this year. An expert on witchcraft has just filled the room left by a tall African named Selbourne Mvusi, who was billed as a "Zulu artist." Of genuine Zulu origin, Mvusi produces sombre, impressionistic oils and mournful woodcuts. He is studying art education at Penn State, at the suggestion of Professor Gordon All-port, who also invited him to Dunster House...
...sings, she dances, she is an expert ventriloquist and a hypnotic spieler of commercials, she had her first book (The Shari Lewis Puppet Book) published last week; at the age of 24, she makes more than $75,000 a year, and children write her letters: "My mother says I have to cat spinach if I'm going to grow up as big as you. Please stand up so I can see how much I have...
Robert F. Bales, professor of Social Relations and an expert on group dynamics, said he would emphasize the background and personalities of the students, rather than their sexes, in evaluating the type of group organization preferable. However, he noted that in Social Sciences 112, "Human Relations," "hetrogeneity is preferred in discussion groups because the existence of different perspectives leads to interesting discussions...