Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Harry Balogh, 70, boxing's "Marquis of Malaprop," whose bullhorn ring announcements rattled U.S. stadiums for some 35 purple years; following surgery; in Manhattan. A onetime bellhop from the Lower East Side, Balogh brought "class" to his profession by introducing the soup-and-fish and the comparative adjective...
Beedle Smith was a bootstrap soldier. He rose to the top of his profession without ever attending either West Point or college. As a small boy in Indianapolis, he listened to the vivid recollections of his German grandfather, a veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, and decided he would become...
Walt Kelly's brilliant satire and political comment in his cartoons certainly make him one of the truly outstanding representatives of his profession.
It is only fair now that TIME turn its imagination loose and trip down the hierarchic stairs through the also-rans, and even into the never-weres. Our profession is in need of variety-not a grand sachem.
It was the year the largest diamond was discovered, yellow fever broke out in New Orleans, and George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession was banned from Broadway. But in the inbred lore of baseball, 1905 will always be the year in which Manager Bill Armour of...