Word: journeyman
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...mother lode when they see one, and they have moved with mule-skinner determination to pile it even higher: by last week a nerve-shattering total of eleven new westerns was slogging along the TV trail. And no one was slogging with more enthusiasm than a tall, balding journeyman writer-producer named Frank Gruber, 54, who has hacked out more words, he claims, than any other living writer. Nearly all of the words have been western...
...When Staircase sold (1,250,000 copies so far), she went on writing, reached her popular peak in the era of her serialized (Sateve-post) sentimental adventures of a spinster named "Tish," still sternly kept regular office hours in her 70s. Mrs. Rinehart once shrewdly appraised her own honorable journeyman status in letters: "If I agonized like a Chekhov over my work, and I did, the resemblance ceased there...
...breed of journeyman fighters, proud of his trade, Old Archie (41 going on 44) is always in shape, always ready to throw punches for pay. So last week he simply packed his bag, flew to Louisville and on Derby Eve treated a race-wise crowd to a professional demonstration of ring-wise skill. Archie's snappy little imperial stayed trim as a movie star's toupee while he gave young (25) Besmanoff a painful ten-round boxing lesson. He won the decision handily...
...difficult to tell from the Tufts game whether or not goalie Tab Cleary has made a marked improvement, for of his fourteen saves, the vast majority were routine. In its crease, Princeton has alternated Sid Guberman and Bo Torrey, both of whom are of the journeyman variety...
...simply made him a "trustee" without bothering to tell him. The bulletins list a law school, but there was no one to staff it. Though 100 engineering courses are listed, there is only one man in the "college of engineering," and the faculty of the journalism school is one journeyman printer. A student from Greece who went to Belin after reading its glowing account of its premedical program found that it does not even offer physics or chemistry. To make matters worse, the U.S. Immigration Service last month told Belin's 17 foreign students that they could stay...