Word: specializer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently, Correspondent John Donovan, on special assignment for TIME, dropped by the American Community School and sent us the following report...
...Bother!" Princess Margaret was not born a king's daughter, but even the weather on the night of Aug. 21, 1930 seemed to conspire with a sentimental people to give her birth a special glamour. A howling wind whistled around her grandparents' home, gloomy old Castle Glamis (rhymes with palms), where Shakespeare's Macbeth had long since murdered sleep and Duncan. Lightning flashed and the rain beat down. The announcement of the first royal child to be born north of the Tweed since 1601 was greeted by an ear-splitting squeal of bagpipes...
Kaye, born in Brooklyn 36 years ago, is mobbed by adoring throngs. So many fans phone him at his Savoy suite that a special office had to be set up to handle some 52 calls an hour. His London appearance last year brought 70,000 fan letters in seven weeks; this year the total ran over 100,000. For those who cannot see the real Kaye, there is a wax model in Madame Tussaud's gallery of the great...
From July, 1947 to the spring of 1948 Gordon was "almost full time" consultant with the State Department, working on ERP. In August, 1948, he was special assistant to Ambassador Harriman in Paris ECA headquarters...
Jaakko reserves his special praise for Bannister. "Why, that mile here between Bannister and George Wade of Yale will be one of the best of the whole intercollegiate season," he predicted yesterday. "Wade is the kind of a runner who needs to be pushed, and I think both of them will go under 4:10, so you can see what a race it should...