Word: technician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted the world to know who is responsible for all that glamor. For instance, when Ingrid Bergman first came to Hollywood, she had to use an onion to bring on the tears. With the help of the make-up men, she had learned to use a menthol inhaler. One technician recalled that he had successfully taped back one of Alan Ladd's ears (the other one is all right). Another had taped both of Frank Sinatra's ears to minimize his "handle-cup appearance...
...first programs were picked up in student rooms by tapping the radio to the radiators. After three weeks of such operation, a smug technician heard the station over his automobile receiver on the way home from Wellesley somewhere in the Newtons. F.C.C. has strict limits on the radiation of unlicensed stations, so the Network turned from the radiators to the cold water pipes...
...this category, perhaps the most important is Rumanian Dinn Lipatti, a former pupil of Cortot and Stravinsky, who is nearing thirty. Although he is a regular professor at the Conservatory of Geneva, Lipatti has been spreading his rapidly growing reputation by exhaustive tours of Europe. Already an excellent technician, his interpretation of Romantic and Modern music have often been hostilely received by critics. His Ravel, and even more strikingly, his Chopin have a neat, precise touch that makes them sound almost Classical to ears accustomed to the rather hyper-poetical treatment of many better known pianists, such as his former...
Last week in Toronto, ex-U.S. Marine WT. E. Bateman was getting set to take a party up the Nahanni next summer to look for Patterson and gold. In Vancouver, Tom Carolan, Army veteran and film technician, planned to lead an expedition into the valley this spring to make a travel film. Perhaps Canadians would soon have another explanation of the wonders of the Headless Valley...
Carlson of West Falmouth, former electronics technician in the Navy, is an honor graduate of Phillip Exeter Academy. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he specialized in electronic physics here. He was elected to a war service scholarship from the State of Massachusetts...