Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clique may wish to lead her. A totalitarian, he lacks Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto's aggressive and hare-brained Fascism. And it may be that, unless he can give the Army its pound of flesh, he will find himself out of the office he treasures, replaced by someone less brilliant, less cautious, "more vigorous." For with Mr. Matsuoka in the Foreign Office, Japan has moved in the East only when events in the West were favorable...
...Florence. Taxco is a tired old gambler of a town that has had just three brief runs of luck in 500 years. Last week the 4,500 Taxquenos, the President and Foreign Minister of the Republic and some 5,000 visitors celebrated Taxco's new luck in a brilliant three-day silver fiesta...
...Country Club. They saw no heckling match: it was much too serious for that. The Babe, now 47 and 30 Ib. heavier than in his heyday, put his 230 Ib. behind each tee shot, outdrove Cobb on nearly every hole. Cobb, 54, played a characteristically crafty short game. His brilliant putting stole hole after hole. On the 16th green, he won the match, 3 and 2. Finishing the 18 holes to please the gallery, Cobb's medal score was 81, Ruth...
Handsome, brilliant, persuasive, emotional Wang Ching-wei, Japan's puppet President of China, during most of his 57 years has been haunted by the ghost of power, the fantasy of cheering crowds. For praise and power he has already sacrificed the memory of his master, Sun Yatsen, the trust of the Chinese people and his own principles. So last week he actually got an ovation...
...sanguine views were answered by a man who had spent 15 years in German-U.S. commercial negotiations. He is Douglas Miller, until 1939 U.S. Commercial Attaché in Berlin, now assistant professor of economics at the University of Denver's School of Commerce. In a brief, brilliant, conversational book called You Can't Do Business With Hitler (Little, Brown; $1.50) he describes just what it means to try to trade or compete for trade with businessmen under Nazi control. Items...