Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auto industry stretched and soared, so did Hyatt. By 1916 Hyatt had a gross capacity of $10,000,000 worth of bearings a year. But A. P. Sloan was worried. His biggest customer was General Motors, which brilliant, mercurial William Crapo Durant had put together by merging a number of auto companies several years before. What if G.M. should decide to make its own bearings? So when Billy Durant offered to buy Hyatt, Sloan jumped at the chance, sold out to Billy Durant for $13,500,000. At 41, with $5,000,000 in his pocket, he might have retired...
MacArthur used the Eighth as his second team in the invasion of the Philippines. Under Eichelberger it mopped up on Leyte (where Eighth Army men killed 26,000 Japs). In the assault on Luzon its role was also secondary, but brilliant: a landing below Manila, climaxed by a razzle-dazzle airborne assault...
...Hess and Streicher, Ley and Rosenberg, and Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) and von Schirach (Austria). And along with the familiar names were others: Sauckel, the slave-herder; Hans Fritzsche, the propagandist; ex-Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick; Ernst Kalten-brunner, originator of mass execution by gas, and Albert Speer. the brilliant, ruthless organizer of German war production. Of the 24 not more than half were Prussians...
Bits of Brilliance. Except for the practice, there was no good reason why the other 46 entrants in the men's singles bothered to compete at Forest Hills last week. None of them ever had a chance. But between lunges and tumbles, they squeezed in bits of brilliant tennis...
...witches' Sabbath. Except when she overuses her eyes in fey moments, Jennifer Jones more than delivers on the promise of her Song of Bernadette. Restrained Joseph Gotten gives the film its needed ballast of sanity. Hilt-deep supporting performances are contributed by Gladys Cooper, Cecil Kellaway, and a brilliant Australian named Ann Richards. She has three-alarm beauty and four-alarm talent, and is the only screen actress since Ingrid Bergman to look wonderful in a shirtwaist...