Word: professional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In class or in public lectures, Copey's small size made him self-con-scious about reading or speaking standing up. A letter in a recent Alumni Bulletin describes his in sistence on a table and chair that would fit "a boy five feet, five and one-half inches tall...
Selling books has always been considered a quiet, genteel and vaguely intellectual profession. In recent years, though bookstore sales are up, all but the larger shops (which carry everything from phonograph records to cute paper napkins along with reading matter) have been harassed by competition from book clubs, high prices...
Doctors, surgeons and hospitals were under a crossfire of criticism last week, some of it from within the medical profession itself. Items:
...control and are denied the right to do routine surgery in them. Cried G.P. Phelps: "Great damage has been done and much public distrust of the entire profession has resulted from the senile mouthings of spokesmen and the selfish, shortsighted policies of at least one self-anointed national professional group. The financial ring of their concern is very hollow. They insult the intelligence of the public when they believe people do not see the big dollar sign through the sham of their propaganda." Wild Oklahoma broncos would not drag the name of the "one group" from Dr. Phelps...
As suavely as a coed angling for a date. Harvard's President Nathan Pusey last week fished his radio audience, then set the hook: "My commercial is simply this: if you care about higher education, you must care not only about students but also about teachers. The salary of...