Word: acumen
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Producers Theatre, Inc. is a far cry from the usual one-shot partnership of Broadway show backers. It is a longterm, well-knit marriage of business acumen and theatrical talent. Its sparkplug is dynamic Real-Estate Tycoon Roger L. Stevens, who engineered the 1951 purchase of the Empire State Building and its sale last month...
After several of us had written "tip off friends," in our notebooks, we started off to Adams House, with the leader backpedaling in front of us, answering questions and avoiding trees with considerable acumen. We saw in Adams, as is near succeeding House, the library, dining hall, common rooms, and a typical room, which in this case just happened to be Franklin D. Roosevelt's former suite. But of course, the climax was seeing the famous swimming pool...
...girls are seldom asked to do much work. On Private Secretary, blonde Cinemactress Ann Sothern occasionally pecks at a typewriter, but mostly she is shown trading wisecracks with her boss (Don Porter), getting mink and sable coats from the firm's clients or having her superior business acumen vindicated (dumb as the girls are, they are all far brighter than the men who employ them...
Smitten with admiration for her pluck and for her thriving little print shop, Harvard President Holyoke married the former Mrs. Glover. His admiration for her business acumen and the monopoly she enjoyed in the trade made him throw the University's printing her way. In addition, her shop printed such books as the bay Pslam Book and the Bible in an Indian dialect...
...election but Eisenhower said he hoped the whole spies-in-government excitement would be a matter of history by the next election and that the GOP would run on its legislative program. Many claimed the President couldn't control his own lieutenants; other praised his political acumen in staying above the mudslinging...