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...Author. Says Walter Dumaux Edmonds of his novels from Rome Haul to Young Ames: "I'm a pretty good technician, sort of a fancy reporter who reports on the past instead of the present." Purpose of his fancy reporting: "To tell, through the daily lives of everyday people, the story of New York State and its key periods in history...
...powers of characterization, on his Swiftian moral grandeur, and on that almost Shakespearean humaneness which alone could delight the plainest of readers, he is obtuse as only a hyperintellectual can be. But on those intricate obscurities which put off most plain readers, and on Joyce as a technician and theorist, he has written the best guidebook and the most brilliant criticism to date...
Soviet Russia is justly proud of its craggy-faced Marshal Semion Timoshenko, but Wales has put in a claim to half of him. One J. John, a schoolteacher of Crewkerne, England, wrote to a North Wales friend that the Marshal's father was really a Welsh technician, Charles Jenkins, who went to Russia 61 years ago with Schoolteacher John's grandfather to work in a factory at what is now Stalino...
...managers who took Washington jobs in 1941 were for the most part business' trade-association and front men, not its technicians. (Mr. Knudsen was a technician, but he was given a policy job.) They gave freely and patriotically of their time and effort. The U.S. owed them its gratitude for making the necessary educational mistakes. In 1941 these mistakes cost merely time and reputations; in 1942 they will cost lives...
Admiral Yamamoto must have been trying a little Japanese wool-pulling when he surprised everyone at the London Naval Conference by defining the torpedo as a "defensive weapon." "Doesn't it depend, sir," asked a U.S. naval technician, "at which...