Word: professional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the top ten are three big oilmen and a former lawyer. Also on the list is an Ohio gambler whose method made history. Ranging through football-talented Ohio and Pennsylvania in the 1940s, he spotted prospective stars, would sometimes offer to send them to college. The boys never knew...
An automobile salesman by profession, Ward (along with Ken Venturi) just happens to work for a Lincoln-Mercury dealer named Eddie Lowery, who just happens to be a U.S. Golfing Association official. Harvie can afford to spend most of his waking hours on the golf course. In his deft hands...
...Government has spent billions in restoring shattered economies and social activities in foreign countries. But it has totally neglected the effort to return the rule of law to those countries. Our greatest objective, I think, is not to sell our system, but to give advice and help and professional guidance-and that is one of the most important tasks of the legal profession of our country. I'm a great believer in the future of the rule...
To help meet the crisis, says Handlin, the U.S. can fall back on such devices as classroom TV and the use of lay assistant teachers. But the problem will never disappear until the U.S. has raised salaries ("Teachers are the only occupational group whose real earnings have actually fallen since...
"Too Many Things." Born 54 years ago in Manhattan, Wight never got around to picking any one profession. In the Depression years he wrote three novels, "and just squeaked by." During World War II he rose to the Navy rank of lieutenant commander, took part in the Normandy invasion. After...