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Word: asset (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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GEORGY GIRL. The rags-to-riches story of a butler's dumpy daughter is like a thousand eccentric English comedies, but it boasts one sterling asset in Georgy herself, played with vibrant good humor by 23-year-old Lynn Redgrave, daughter of Sir Michael and sister of Vanessa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 4, 1966 | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...Adlai does have higher political aspirations, for example the governor's chair or Senate seat, then the experience of two consecutive victorious state-wide campaigns will be an in valuable asset. He will have proven his ability as a vote-getter and will be at least reasonably familiar with the party organization and the press. Moreover, the experience of this campaign will have allowed him a chance to polish his campaign style. Adlai's speeches tend to be dull and confused, his public image is weak and could use more color; for humor he relies too often on his father...

Author: By Thomas J. Moore, | Title: Adlai Stevenson III | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

GEORGY GIRL. The rags-to-riches story of a butler's dumpy daughter is like a thousand eccentric English comedies, but it boasts one sterling asset in Georgy herself, played with vibrant good humor by 23-year-old Lynn Redgrave, daughter of Sir Michael and sister of Vanessa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Oct. 28, 1966 | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...country. "I've learned to keep quiet and not to argue," she says. She knows that "you can always sweet-talk someone into doing something for you." Perhaps more important, "when telephone operators hear a female voice, they always try harder to get a connection through"-an incomparable asset when fighting the fouled-up communications of Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Correspondents: Femininity at the Front | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...merchant banker's prime asset is his experience in sizing up situations, measuring men and calculating risks down to one sixty-fourth of 1 %. But very often, as Wechsberg notes, he relies on instinct. One day in 1932, Swedish Match King Ivar Kreuger tried to interest the Lehman Brothers in a complicated financial deal. Kreuger talked and talked about his grandiose schemes, while Philip Lehman made a few notes. Then Lehman turned him down: "I have a rule, Mr. Kreuger. If I cannot understand something by reading my notes on the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Money Magicians | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

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