Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brain child of an American Council of Learned Societies group, Spectator started life with a three-year subsidy ($5,000 a year) from the council, besides gifts from the colleges and other angels. Because of development costs, it had a year-end deficit of $6,000, which Stanford will make...
...Franklin Roosevelt's brain-trusters of the early New Deal had vanished from Harry Truman's Administration. Only David Lilienthal and James McCauley Landis remained in important jobs. Last week hawk-eyed Jim Landis, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board and one of the keenest legal eagles of them all, got his walking papers...
...community's better-known Bright Boys. "I am short of the old I-am," he explains. "When I get mixed up with Nunnally Johnson or Herman Mankiewicz or Ben Hecht, I am struck dumb. I feel more comfortable in front of a camera." Actually, the very sound brain in his head doesn't run either to wit or to highbrow intellectual discussion. Alfred Hitchcock has said of him that he is probably the most anecdoteless man in Hollywood; it does not come natural to him either to tell anecdotes or to inspire them. David Selznick has called Peck...
Sweetened Water & Peas. Carver and Washington were the brain and heart of Tuskegee. What is now a $10 million campus began with a shanty schoolhouse which leaked so badly that on rainy days Booker T. Washington had to keep his umbrella up while teaching. For weeks, he and his students lived on little more than sweetened water and black peas. The Negroes of the town could only help him a little. An old woman hobbled up to him one day and gave him all she had-six eggs. "Mr. Washington," she said, "I knows what you is tryin...
...first place, the U.S. is a land of such glowing opportunity that no candidate need bother to have a brain. Senator Melvin G. Ashton (William Powell) cannot even spell-but, with the help of a smart pressagent (Peter Lind Hayes) and a bit of blackmail, he very nearly makes the White House...