Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor. John Roy Steelman, the professor, was born on an Arkansas farm 46 years ago. He went to war, returned and worked his way through college, got a master's degree in sociology, became professor of sociology at Alabama College. He was called to Washington by Frances Perkins to serve as a labor conciliator. Now, as the boss of OWMR, he sits over the whole national economy-a regular fellow and a friend...
...innings, but the Bellboys put on the pressure in a big four-run uprising in the top of the fourth, and were never again headed. Curley poled a tremendous homer to the Stadium wall in that frame with two mates aboard, after cohort Pete Marble had clouted another four-master with the sacks empty...
...page Lives of the Most Eminent Architects, Painters and Sculptors of Italy made Vasari the world's first art historian. But for him, many an early Renaissance master would be unknown today, many a masterpiece unattributed. Last week, a 300-page abridgement of Vasari's Lives (edited by Betty Burroughs; Simon & Schuster; $3.75) let laymen in on some brisk reading that had previously been buried in a mass of scholarly detail. The new Lives were almost as easy going as a gossip column, and for much the same reason. Sample...
...telephone slaves a Swiss robot now promises freedom. Its name: Ipsophone. This amazing, almost human instrument automatically answers phone calls, gives and takes messages, rebuffs unwanted callers with a busy signal, records long conversations, and faithfully plays back everything it has heard whenever its master chooses to listen...
Numbers Game. Anytime he feels curious, the robot's master can get a complete report by dropping into a phone booth and calling up his Ipsophone...