Word: professionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶A banker ready to discuss either his 9-to-5 profession or his sideline, firearms.
Working a long engagement as "vice president in charge of fun" at Santa Monica's Pacific Ocean Park, sad-eyed Clown Emmett Kelly took a sad-eyed view of his profession. When they were still the greatest shows on earth, he moaned, big-time U.S. circuses had billets for...
¶ Manhattan Lawyer Grenville Clark, 76, as he received an A.B.A. gold medal for his book, World Peace Through Law: "I hope to continue to work on a feasible plan to substitute law for violence or the threat of it. It is lawyers' work, predominantly lawyers' work. The...
"There was no use two bulls going in there and locking horns," explained the farm-raised Fullmer, who does not let his profession prevent him from being an elder in the Mormon Church.
Last week, facing Washington newsmen after the announcement of his appointment as commandant, Shoup was asked to name his favorite pastime. His answer came swiftly-and in the best Marine tradition. "Shooting," said Dave Shoup. "It has a pretty direct relationship to my profession."