Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevens, said Wilson Jainsen, president of the company, "was renowned as a specialist in surety-bond work." Besides surety bonds, Wallace Stevens had another speciality that brought him worldwide renown. He was one of the finest poets of of a generation whose special need for poetry Wallace Stevens well understood...
Among U.S. tourists, the hardest hit is the specialist in out-of-the-way restaurants, anxious to show his friends that little place he discovered two years ago last spring. The doorman whistles for a taxi, then sadly reports: "I'm very sorry, monsieur. So many taxi drivers are en vacances." Conveyed to the address by a limousine, hired at three times the normal price, the tourists are apt to find the restaurant tightly shuttered and a big sign saying: "Fermeture annuelle." On the fourth try they may find one open, though the regular chef is "en vacances...
...Geneva went Red China's Ambassador to Communist Poland, Wang Ping-nan, 47, a protégé of wily Premier Chou Enlai. From the U.S., after firm final guidance from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, went Ambassador Ural Alexis Johnson, 46, able career diplomat and specialist on northeast Asia. This will be no glare-bathed conference on general principles like the Parley at the Summit; chances are that it will be a long, quiet conference grinding away at details...
...Office Tonic. Surprise hit of the festival was the nine-member Bach Aria Group from the U.S., organized nine years ago by Oil Heir William H. Scheide, a onetime music teacher at Cornell University. Bach Specialist Scheide, who has long maintained that the cantatas are the heart of Bach's work, figured out that about half of the cantatas' 650-odd arias could be performed by combinations of five instruments and four voices. To prove it, he assembled the aria group, made the discovery, to everyone's surprise that Bach vocal music was a tonic...
...beat, stripped of his badge and pistol, suspended from the force and charged with robbery. Reporter Wood saw it all, wrote the story, gave the Daily News a clean beat over the Herald. She also scored a clean beat over her husband; he is the Herald's crime specialist...