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...physicians who prescribe corrective lenses as a minor part of their specialty of treating eye disorders. Then optometrists,* who may not apply medicine or perform surgery, but measure visual defects, prescribe for them and fit lenses. Then there are the opticians. The ophthalmologists generally regard the other groups as journeymen technicians. But most ophthalmologists have been slow to see the potential demand for contact lenses, or their possible advantages; so the optometrists have filled the vacuum...
...minor art form, genre is now largely superseded by photography, a similar and also minor art form. But in the mid-19th century, a host of American journeymen-artists practiced genre painting with extraordinary success. The rising middle class of the period paid well and cheerfully for competent pictures of the things to be seen through their own windows: Drawing a Bead on a Woodchuck, Cornhusking, The German Immigrant Enquiring His Way, The Organ Grinder, The Sailor's Wedding. All that seems quaint about such pictures helped give them a soothing familiarity in their own time. The passing generations...
...join teaching teams (being tried in Baltimore this year) that could solve a big problem: the discouraging salary ceiling that a teacher reaches after 15 years. Some teams have equally ranked specialists. Most have a "master" teacher who gives the main presentation, then turns over the class to several journeymen, apprentices and clerical aides. The master (salary: up to $15,000) is free for another class or study in his field. Result: a true hierarchy of ability, a chance for able teachers to get paid more...
...American League, the Cleveland Indians got good pitching and devastating hitting-they had been expected to have neither-and led the league after winning nine of their first ten games. Much of the batting support came from a pair of light-hitting journeymen infielders who had been considered all but washed up. Third Baseman Woody Held, 27, a .204 hitter with only seven home runs last year, hit five homers, knocked in ten runs in his first eight games. Shortstop George Strickland, 33, who actually retired in disgust a year ago and returned only at the urging of Cleveland...
...Chicago, members of Local 130 of the A.F.L. Journeymen Plumbers and Steamfitters Union voted to walk out over a 15? wage demand. Management announced that it would appeal the strike decision to the union's past president: Secretary of Labor, Martin Durkin...