Word: professional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working publishers, editors, reporters and newspaper mechanics did not need to be told that a lot of their profession had gone to war. Staffs were becoming shorthanded, worked harder to fill the gaps. Women's chances had never been more plentiful in journalism. Mechanical staffs, thinned down to more...
Standing now at the top of his profession, in which, curiously enough, he holds no degree, William Francis Gibbs is a profound skeptic. Young Son Francis is an enthusiastic horseman, but Father Gibbs hates the sight of horseflesh. Said a member of his family: "He always suspects they're...
New BuAer Chief Rear Admiral John Sidney McCain, 58, is a good officer. But like many other so-called air admirals, he got an airman's rating late, is not an airman by profession, but a battleship admiral with pay-and-a-half and a flying suit.* Since his...
Bock, the Prussian, born in a Prussian fortress 61 years ago, required men to die for the Fatherland, for the glory of arms, for themselves ("Our profession should always be crowned by heroic death in battle"). Once he had commanded men to die for the Emperor. Now, with impersonal fervor...
That big new high-school building the Town has been so proud of is a different place this week from what it has ever been before. With the opening of the fall term, the 30,000 U.S. high schools will buckle down to prepare their graduates not for college, not...