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...backgrounds, Buffalo-born Wilber draws heavily on his own experiences and on stories he has heard during his tours of duty on such papers as the old Buffalo Times (where he started as a copy boy), the Birmingham Age-Herald, Milwaukee Journal, Memphis Commercial Appeal, and as a stringer for Alaska's Ketchikan Chronicle and Anchorage Times...
...free-style record, and Jimmy McLane, who, as an Andover schoolboy of 17, became the 1948 Olympic 1,500-meter freestyle champion. Last week, after a lengthening string of victories over Marshall and McLane, Yale's newly elected Team Captain Moore, 20, finally kicked the "third-stringer" tag far into his own foamy wake...
...Stringer (n.) : Part-time correspondent...
Before an issue of TIME goes to press, a short may turn into a parmark (only to be outspaced later), a twin-bed position may be dummied, a stringer queried for a checking poin't, a widow picked up near the NA researchers' bullpen, and double trucks left bleeding in the gutter...
Speaking at the first in the annual series of Conferences on Careers sponsored by the Office of Student Placement, Frank McNaughton, special Washington correspondent for Time Magazine; John L. Steele, staff writer for the United Press; William H. Stringer, assistant to to the editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and moderator John H. Crider, news analyst for station WEEI all agreed that "the water's fine and anyone can get in who has the ability...