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...Tyro. Although never a cub in the Times shop, Mrs. McCormick schooled herself for years before filing a cable. British-born (in Wakefield, Yorkshire, of American parents) Anne O'Hare grew up in Columbus, Ohio, went to St. Mary of the Springs Academy ('98) and the College of St. Mary of the Springs. In Cleveland she worked as associate editor of the weekly Catholic Universe Bulletin, on which her mother, Poet Teresa O'Hare, was once woman's-page editor...
...Cures" & Quacks. Did Freud give up hypnotism too soon? Authors Wolfe and Rosenthal, sure that he did, report hypnotic effects that make Svengali* look like a tyro. They claim that hypnotism has cured numerous cases of psychoneurosis, made childbirth painless and alcoholics sober. They reassure prospective patients by saying that no one can be forced to act against his moral principles while in a trance (e.g., a girl cannot be hypnotically seduced if she does not want to be; if she does, the authors add gravely, "hypnosis is an unnecessarily involved and roundabout route...
Stowe is the most popular resort for College students. Most of the trails have been widened. The Stowe Standard, Gulch, Tyro, and North open slope runs have been smoothed and are now serviced by longer T-bar and rope tows...
...beginning, he had fetched far less: as a tyro with a Welsh burr, he had covered smoke-hall concerts in Brighton for 25 shillings a week. He got his fill of spot news and close calls in the Boxer Rebellion and the Russo-Japanese war. In his day he had run the Manila Times, worked for Hearst and Pulitzer and-luckily-for George Creel at the World War I Peace Conference. Lord Northcliffe, then in control of the London Times, hired him at Versailles for the Washington...
...quiet reserve that is the mark of the successful down-east trader. Across the desk he is deliberate and exceedingly mild in mien and expression. This softness of speech must not be taken for timidity, as a generation of Crimson candidates will testify. But Durant is no legendary tyro out of the Copey mold. Rather he is a businessman-engineer working at the earth-bound business of maintaining Harvard's wealth of real facilities...