Word: professional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The reflective survey of William Francis Gibbs's "technological revolution" (TIME, Sept. 28) was, to me, unreflectively marred by a phrase as superficial as a second thumb. . . . "Standing now at the top of his profession, in which, curiously enough, he holds no degree. . . ."
Many a degree holder looks upon his sheepskin as symbol of his success in mastering all the ideas of his profession. "According to the Gibbsian philosophy, 'he gets to thinking he is so goddam bright that it just paralyzes him.'" Franklin, Edison, the Wright Bros, held no degrees...
Fidgety, canny Roger Touhy, 45, sentenced to 99 years for the $70,000 kidnapping of Promoter John ("Jake the Barber") Factor in 1933, is one of the few real gangster toughies left. A runty guy (5 ft. 5, 139 lb.), he bossed the Capone-rivaling Touhy mob during Chicago'...
This organization, distracted by rivers of six per cent beer and small talk that ranges from post-war planning to post-mortems on the current collapse of the Yanks, must compose, rewrite and assemble news stories up to that awful time known throughout the profession as the deadline. After that...
Later, when Room Niners asked the Mayor to comment on the gubernatorial campaign, he replied that he didn't propose to be quoted on that or any other matter until they had learned the ethics of their profession. The only newspaper folk he was interested in talking to, he...