Word: profileration
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To biographical mountain climbers, the figure of Winston Churchill rears up as formidably as Mt. Everest. One reason is that the last word on Churchill is usually by Churchill. Wisely hugging the foothills of anecdote, Robert Lewis Taylor, the New Yorker profiler, has put together a crisp, readable "informal study...
There were other names which pop up regularly all along the U.S. Communist line: ex-Yank Correspondent Walter Bernstein, Movie Scripter Alvah Bessie (now awaiting trial for contempt of Congress), New Yorker Profiler Richard O. Boyer, ex-Howard University Professor Doxey Wilkerson.
Profiler Busch explains his method: "Usually I get some friend of the proposed subject to tell a few stories. Then I get some enemy of my subject to do the same . . . then I ask [the subject] a list of routine questions that would draw the truth out of a stone...
Apparently chief profiler from his invention has been Mr. Carter, the Chattanooga innkeeper who observed his putting course was used more than the regular links (TIME, July 14). Last week revealed new details, a new chief character.*