Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon Joe Foss, who had left the Marines to become a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, was flying all over the state acting as master of ceremonies for South Dakota's Miss America contest, dedicating baseball fields and leading airmen in a fancy repertoire of acrobatics. To questions about the future he bluntly replied: "I don't know myself what I'm going to do in 1950, but take a look at those in office...
...career remained under the watchful eye of the Red apparatus. In 1936 Hiss had the opportunity to transfer from the Justice to the State Department. Said Chambers: "He [Hiss] wanted to know the party's wishes on that ... I discussed the problem with J. Peters [Soviet spy-ring master] and told Mr. Hiss J. Peters wished him to enter the State Department...
Meanwhile, the school administrator is so busy worrying about inkspot removers and paper towels or boning up on articles in administration journals ("Master Lists and Suggested Methods of Storage of Equipment for the Course in High School Physics") that he has no time to think about education either...
...when he was ruling the amateurs at Forest Hills, was learning the scales the hard way as a pro. But there was no reason to think the younger man could not learn by experience. At week's end in Richmond, Va. he finally took one from the old master...
Died. Luther ("Bill," "Bojangles") Robinson, 71, longtime master of old-school (non-acrobatic) tap dancers; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Grandson of a slave, Robinson ran away from his home-town Richmond at eight, shined shoes, worked as stableboy and waiter, danced for nickels & dimes in beer joints before he rose to millionaire stardom (as high as $8,000 a week) in vaudeville, movies (The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel with Moppet Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely...