Word: professional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Pall to Pernod. When Charlie was eleven, the year he learned to drive a car on the farm, a worried teacher told his father: "Charlie is capable in any direction. But I wonder if he'll ever be able to concentrate on any one thing." To the greater...
The eleven-point question is not whether Van Doren will go on gambling on TV but whether his whole career may-not be about to veer again. His celebrity has drawn a swarm of offers: to appear on TV as guest star, panelist, moderator of his own series, to edit...
The panel agreed that the arts were a highly exacting profession and that, in the words of Randall Thompson '20, Walter Bigelow Professor of Music, "You shouldn't go into music unless you're passionately interested."
Christian Herter, Jr. '41, former Governor and present Assistant Secretary of State, warned prospective lawyers to avoid politics unless they were securely affiliated with some legal firm. Speaking at the Conference on "Law as a Career" he stressed the need of developing a profession before planning a political career.
Rhome said his average day included such diverse topics as a court case, the drawing up of a will, an interview with a woman considering divorce, and estate planning. Law, he felt, was a good profession because it was a "great deal of fun" along with the "satisfaction of helping...