Word: self-taught
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Manning is a self-taught expert on many subjects, and occasionally astounds his guests. On one trip across with New York's ex-Representative Joe Baldwin, he and Baldwin traded lines from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Manning puts his best social foot forward dancing. He has standing orders with the chief steward to steer the best dancers in his direction. Says Manning with a grin: "The only reason I'm on these ships is that I can tango...
...connoisseur's taste for fine wines and first editions, Lindner's erudition awed his staff. He was an authority on the theater, a patron of the opera and symphony, a collector of Japanese prints and a dryly witty talker on such topics as 19th century literature. Largely self-taught, he was graduated from Manhattan's DeWitt Clinton High School and worked on several magazines and dailies as a reporter, ad manager and editor before he was spotted by Hearst's Prince of the Realm, Arthur Brisbane, who took him on as his assistant. At 31, Newsman...
...Australia's Adrian Quist is one of many old hands credited with having revamped Savitt's game. Savitt says he is almost entirely self-taught. "Quist and I played once or twice, and of course it helps to play with a guy, but he never gave me any coaching...
They frequently disagree-at first. George, the self-taught expert on finance, usually holds back, raises the practical obstacles, demanding: "If we do this, where's the money to come from?" John, the bold empire builder, is always tugging ahead, might overreach himself but for George...
...Belgium, The Netherlands, England, Switzerland, Italy and the U.S. before he returns to his present home in Montevideo. Like his compatriot, Catalan Cellist Pablo Casals, he has not returned to Spain since the civil war of the '30s. Still practicing from five to six hours a day, self-taught Andrés Segovia often permits himself a restrained self-compliment: "The teacher is satisfied with his pupil...