Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A Light Hand. Like many a success ful publisher, gangling, Dakota-born Phil Graham never covered a news sto ry. A lawyer by training and a wheeler-dealer by instinct, he started at the top of his adopted profession. In 1940 he married Katharine Meyer, 22, news-minded daughter of...
Samuel Taylor's rather sketchy book tells the story of David Jordon, a writer from "the rock-bound coast of Maine" and his love affair with Barbara Woodruff, the highest paid fashion model in Paris, and incidentally a Negro. David was once at the top of his profession (he had...
UCV, as the Central University is known, is one of Venezuela's five state supported schools. (In addition Caracas has two private universities.) Its 18,000 students comprise slightly less than half of the nation's university population of 45,000. A normal course of study lasts five years (medicine...
As her story begins, Fanny is a 15-year-old Lancashire lass who arrives in London and promptly falls into the clutches of a sporting-house madam. Her subsequent adventures are detailed in prose that misses nary an 18th century curlicue. Of one memorable orgy for eight, she relates: "It...
People who got a good look at the sun's glowing corona during its recent eclipse may have seen faint veils of light trailing off into space. Appearing as harmless as thistledown, they were visible evidence of the sun's far-reaching violence. Stormy weather on the sun...