Word: professionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like flagpole sitting, managing a major league baseball team is a precarious profession. This year, with the season just half over, four of the 16 managers have already toppled. First it was the Boston Braves' Tommy Holmes, who couldn't get his team out of seventh place. Then...
Why should carillonneurs hold a convention? Campanology is a lonely profession. The performer sits in his enclosed cubicle and may pound until he pants, but he rarely hears much more than a jumble of overtones, mixed with the clatter of the levers. Moreover, there are only 79 carillons in North...
Most health columns in the daily press are dry-as-dust affairs in which the writer-doctor takes himself, his profession and his pen-patients with equal seriousness. An outstanding exception is the column which runs four days a week in the Providence Journal and Bulletin: never stuffy, often irreverent...
Infallible Profession? To a man who asked whether there is a change of life for men in which their drives and interests change, Dr. Chase cited St. Augustine: "We do not forsake our sins. Our sins forsake us." After a brisk medical discussion he concluded: "Sure, we men have a...
Dr. Chase has no illusions about the infallibility of his own profession. When a woman asked him, "Please write about ridiculitis," he replied: "You have misspelled the word, which is radiculitis, but I think your spelling is just as good because I don't take much stock in there...