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...lakehead's only full-time professional diver, Coghlan was checking the foundation of a grain elevator, a chore at which panicky operators have kept him since the collapse of Port Arthur's United Grain Growers' elevator last September. Five days last week, he was underwater for an hour morning and afternoon on the elevator job. "To break the monotony," he passed up the sure-thing $150-a-day fee on two of those days to look for - and find - a 1,800-lb. anchor lost by the government ice breaker Alexander Henry last fall. That treasure made...
...verse) recounting a typical retirement year. Between crisscrossing the U.S. on translating assignments, he served as vice president of the Modern Language Association, proofread all its publications, and bounced into Washington to set up the U.S. Office of Education's first file of world languages. All this solo chore involved was a separate dossier on each of 4,300 languages and dialects, with 1,500 cross references to alternate spellings. Morgan did it in eight weeks...
...Hollywood Johansson has completed another acting chore in Columbia's All the Young Men. He plays a Swede who joins the U.S. Marines to get his citizenship and is shipped to Korea. So excited is Columbia Bigwig Sam Briskin that he hopes to cast Ingo in a western...
Serving as a visiting professor is no new chore to Duroselle: besides the U.S., he has taught in Germany and Italy as well as his native France. In the summer of 1958 he was a visiting professor at Brandeis, and it was then that he was asked to come to Cambridge as a Fall Term replacement for William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History...
...disconnection itself has its purpose, and gives an all-inclusive quality to the film; yet it is also distracting and contributes to the film's great weakness: its general diffuseness, its inability to command sustained attention. For Pather Panchali, remarkable as it may be, is something of a chore to sit through. The viewer receives the impression that he is watching a document, an amazing document to be sure, but not an entirely absorbing one--and thus his eyes keep drifting over to the blue rimmed clock at the side of the screen. One can see the beauty...