Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Take them re-bop* boys. They're great technicians. Mistakes-that's all re-bop is. Man, you've gotta be a technician to know when you make 'em. . . . New York and 52nd Street-that's what messed up jazz. Them cats play too much music -a whole lot of notes, weird notes. . . . That don't mean nothing. . . . You've got to carry a melody...
...Heise boys unveiled a unique project. In Winona, they opened the Heise Clinic. Its staff: Papa Heise & sons. Except for a nurse hired from outside, the clinic was manned entirely by the family. Daughter Dorothy was the receptionist; son-in-law John Curtis, the X-ray and physiotherapy technician. The building (financed by $100,000 the brothers had chipped in) looked like a gleaming vision straight out of Arrowsmith. A two-story limestone affair of 68 rooms done in tile, birchwood and oak, with shiny new medical equipment, the clinic had been personally planned and its construction supervised...
...barnlike recording studio in London, a trim, middle-aged actor in a fawn-colored Savile Row suit sat down last week before a microphone. Adjusting his horn-rimmed glasses, he spoke to a technician in the crisp Mayfair accent that is known to theatergoers the world over: "All I want is lots and lots of water to drink and to have a frightful fuss made over me." Noel Coward, 47, was taking his first serious crack at radio...
Most of the burden for these and other short-comings in the staging lies apparently at the feet of director Andrew McCullough, an experienced technician who must have been below his best for the current production. One piece of staging in particular was painful: the hiding at the back of the set of the frighteningly pathetic scene in which June comforts her son Johnny after he sees the ghost of the man he has betrayed...
...biology major and during the war was a radio technician in the Navy...