Word: specializer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico complained that the U.S. already owned 54,000 square miles-about 44% of the state's total area*-counting seven national forests, a national park, the vast Los Alamos atomic energy layout and the Armed Forces Special Weapons installation east of Albuquerque...
...last week, he was getting ready to meet Queen Frederika at Athens' Hassani airport; the Queen was his special favorite-he had once referred to her, within King Paul's hearing, with a Greek phrase that can be translated as "quite a dish." Sophoulis, as he was dressing, said to his housekeeper: "When I was ill the Queen came to see me and brought me flowers. She is so sweet." A few minutes later, death, as it must to all men, came to Themistocles Sophoulis. King Paul asked Right-Winger Constantin Tsaldaris, now Foreign Minister, to succeed...
Last week Harvard honored Leon Campbell for "his coordination of the findings of amateur stargazers" by presenting him with an honorary Master of Arts. Amateur Campbell also announced that he expected to retire as Pickering Memorial Astronomer, a special post created to further Campbell's work with amateurs. As for the future: "I'm not going to quit astronomical work-just carry on in a more leisurely fashion...
...industry, reap most of its profits, and want nothing from it but, in Mankiewicz's phrase, "400 items of salable merchandise every year." The creators may get their big chance when the Government finally splits theater ownership from production. ¶The moviemakers recognize that a low-budget "special audience" film, e.g., Home of the Brave, can turn a profit without a mass audience, but Hollywood is geared to supply the bigger audience, where the bigger profit lies. ¶Hollywood clings to its self-censoring
Neptune's Daughter (M-G-M), starring Esther Williams, is a musical that is brilliantly Technicolored, lavishly staged and gowned, blatantly expensive and extravagantly dull. Esther Williams is widely publicized as an amphibian attraction,* and her special gifts are apparent when she is photographed in a swim suit or in a pool. But most of this film's action takes place in street dress, well away from the water. As a result, large chunks of it seem somewhat pointless...