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...cook, rose to the rank of master mariner, and sailed around Cape Horn. He went to the U.S., where he crossed the continent as a hobo, worked in a Greenwich Village saloon and, while employed in a Yonkers, N.Y., carpet factory, finally realized that his metier was poetry. Thus the rough, unschooled youth of 19 set out to fashion his poems not for "the portly presence of potentates goodly in girth" but for the "dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth." Such a taste was bound to shock the fastidious Edwardians, who were still doting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Piping Down | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...Just Good Friends." Yet with all the partying and punditing, he prepares assiduously for his classes at C.U.N.Y. and works on serious history, his original metier. He is now busy revising a textbook he coauthored, plans to return soon to his magnum opus, The Age of Roosevelt. He stretches his time by maximum utilization of material: most of his articles are on subjects he already knows, and he has a repertory of three or four lectures, which can be altered for the occasion with little extra effort, and may then be expanded into a book. His newest volume, The Bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Swinging Soothsayer | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

Sacre Cordon Bleu! French Master Chef René Verdon, 41, who steamed out of the White House kitchen complaining about the Texas menus, has gone to work as "culinary consultant" to the Hamilton Beach Division of the Scovill Manufacturing Co. in Racine, Wis. Le metier: touring the U.S. to demonstrate electric blenders and knives and whoop it up for the company cookbook, which recommends such delicacies as hamburger soup, crab-meat corn chowder, and baked honey-orange ham slice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 21, 1966 | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...feline bachelor, a connoisseur of wit and, even more, of social oddities and human blemishes. Horace carefully examined every ointment, hoping to discover a fly in it, minutely tested every piece of armor, hoping to encounter a crack; yet in all this there was less malice than sense of metier. As Beau Brummell dressed for future ages, or Lucullus dined, Walpole peered into corners. But he had, too, his more special, often laborious pursuits: Strawberry Hill, the house he built to his own design at Twickenham, virtually ushered in Britain's Gothic Revival, as his novel The Castle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tottering into Vogue | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...like the composer Rameau, Pirandello first turned to the stage at the age of 50, and there wrought his finest work. He had begun as a poet, and then gained renown as a novelist. So he had plenty of writing experience when he decided the theatre was his true metier...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Right You Are If You Think You Are | 8/3/1961 | See Source »

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