Word: welder
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...DIED. CLAUDE (FIDDLER) WILLIAMS, 96, 1930s pioneer of jazz violin; in Kansas City. A fixture of Kansas City's swing scene, Williams played with Nat King Cole and recorded as a guitarist with Count Basie. He fell into obscurity after World War II and worked as a welder but gained renewed prominence while touring in the 1970s and appearing in the 1998 Broadway revue Black and Blue...
RELATED CIVIL JOBS: Shipfitter, Plumber, Pipefitter, Shipwright, Metal Worker, Welder...
...tours Japan and Korea in the spring, and maybe the U.S. later in the year. There are plans for his searing Swan Lake to visit Paris and tour the U.K. and U.S. in late 2004. Bourne also plans to revive Highland Fling (à La Sylphide retread, with a Scottish welder seduced by a vampire) and, in 2005, choreograph a dance version of the Tim Burton movie Edward Scissorhands. Oh, and did we mention that he's slated to co-direct (with Richard Eyre) and choreograph the much-hyped Disney?Cameron Mackintosh stage show of Mary Poppins, set to debut...
That's another thing about dyslexics: they learn to persevere. Now Slattery has his eye on a career as an underwater welder. "There's a lot of reading involved" between the course work and the instruction manuals, he says. "But I'm looking forward to it, actually." The written word is not going to hold him back anymore. --Reported by Paul Cuadros/Chapel Hill, Greg Land/Atlanta, Sean Scully/Los Angeles and Sora Song/New York
...says members of the Fedayeen grabbed his tongue with pliers and sliced it off with a scalpel so he could not talk. A maid who cleaned one of Uday's houses says she once saw him lop off the ear of one of his guards and then use a welder's torch on his face...