Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these indicate that the man, not the machine, is important here. Though he is short, X-ray technician and Dillon fixture Joe Murphy cannot be dwarfed by his radiating photographic device. "That whistle box" he says; since 1935, the whistle box has taken hundreds of thousands of pictures and Murphy has made friends with everyone from telephone operators to James Bryant Conant...
Personality: Has the traditional qualities of a European diplomat-poise, humor, manners, good birth-but considers himself an economic "technician." Fastidious in his tastes, he is a reader of avant-garde poetry, and his apartment is lined with a Braque canvas and Matisse and Picasso drawings. Principal recreation: mountain-climbing in Northern Sweden...
...determine when the Eskimos first entered the territory. Accompanying Carter were Theodore L. Stoddard, Jr., teaching fellow in Anthropology, William R. Bullard, Jr., now in Yukatan, William L. Kaschube, graduate student in geology at the University of Indiana, and Mrs. Carter, who served as a laboratory technician...
Atomic-Powered. To keep up with the technical progress in industry, McGraw added such new magazines as Electronics and Product Engineering. For the businessman who is more manager than technician, he started Business Week in 1929. Two months after Business Week was launched, the stock market crashed, and in 1932 and 1933 the company showed the only losses in its history. But Business Week pulled out of the red before Founder McGraw retired in 1935. His son James ("Jay") McGraw, a Princeton graduate ('15) and a stiff-collared executive who had grown up in the company, took over...
...reality, in itself, should be merely a tool of drama, just as the playwright, if he is an artist, must also be a good technician. The technician like Mr. Inge, who use his talent to entertain, shock, or emotionally mangle his audience, leaving it nothing more than a momentary dramatic experience, is indulging in literary exercise--little more. Mr. Inge clearly has the tools; now, he needs a new idea...