Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...network wasted no time in demonstrating its taste, beat the competition in signing a prize performer who will not be available until the Army releases him in the spring of 1960. For an estimated $1,000,000, Pfc. Elvis Presley will gyrate and whine through at least one "special" a year for at least three years...
...that, even the board had misgivings, got special permission from the state legislature to raise $200,000 by selling short-term warrants to its Houston bank. As citizens cheered, the board voted to reopen the schools and even to boost the tax rate next fiscal year to $1.75. But trouble was far from over: the bank flatly refused to buy Aldine's warrants, and the schools stayed closed...
After discouraging years of baby-sitting and of writing, which brought only rejection slips, Anne Carlsen got the break she longed for: a chance to teach at a special school for crippled children in Fargo, N. Dak. The children, she found, quickly adjusted to her multiple .handicaps, soon seemed not to notice them. Summer studies won her an M.A., and in 1949 Anne Carlsen got her Ph.D. in education from Minnesota. The next year Dr. Carlsen moved in as superintendent of the Crippled Children's School, which had moved to Jamestown...
Driving Is More Fun. There she lives alone in a two-room apartment over the school. The one thing she leaves to others is cooking. In the office she usually dictates letters, though she has learned to write-far more legibly than most people with normal hands-with a special pen hooked to her stump. Dr. Carlsen attends conventions all over the country, traveling easily by plane or train if it is too far to drive. But driving she loves, in a car with special controls, like those for handicapped veterans. "It's the only thing...
...second career by his friend J. P. Morgan, who urged him to go to work for U.S. Steel. He cleared the corporation of a $340 million bonded debt in time to withstand the Depression. Famed for his diplomacy in labor relations, Episcopalian Taylor was appointed F.D.R.'s special envoy to the Vatican in 1939, a post he served for ten years with dignity and tact in spite of Protestant carping at home...