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Last week Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's special envoy to the Vatican, paid a farewell call on Pope Pius XII, and left Rome for the U. S. Few thought ailing Envoy Taylor would ever return. But the Holy See's diplomacy, canniest in the world, had already taken a step to neutralize the effects of his departure. Day before the Taylor farewell the Pope ap pointed Monsignor Joseph Patrick Hurley, only U. S. member of his Secretariate of State, as Bishop of St. Augustine...
Storm in a Teacup (Alexander Korda) is the tidiest, canniest, best-played bit of heather comedy to come from across the sea since René Clair made The Ghost Goes West. Provost Gow of Baikie (Cecil Parker), treading pompously toward Parliament, stumbled over Mrs. Honoria Hegarty's (Sara Allgood's) dog. Patsy, and her without the money to buy him a license at all. With the twists given this incident by a bright young journalist (Rex Harrison), Patsy's grief is heard all the way to London, and the resulting sympathy nearly forces Provost Gow into...
...Legion), Charles Rich made a name for himself as one of the most useful Saints in Zion. After the hardships of the journey and the first starvation days in the new land, he was further upped in rank to one of the Twelve Apostles, soon became known as the canniest of the lot. When the Mormons planned to extend their empire to California, Rich was one of the two apostles they sent in charge of the expedition. The California experiment eventually petered out, but as a reward for his efforts, Rich was sent to Europe with another apostle...
...drinking widower Cap'n, squire of a plantation falling to seed almost as swiftly as himself. Of the Vixen's litter, two died in traps, one was captured, one run to death by hounds while she was still a cub. That left only one, the strongest and canniest of the lot. Through a long round of seasons he added to his foxy lore, while around him the other creatures of the woods added to theirs also, or died...
...price is determined by supply & demand in international exchange. And because the U. S. has a 'favorable trade balance, demand is normally greater than supply. Whence the dollar flood that has eaten away 35? of every 100? in each U. S. dollar since last April? Continental money-changers, canniest of whom are reputed to be "the Greeks," delight in selling dollars short, but bankers know that that accounted for only a fraction of the drop. Last week from the British Commonwealth Relations Conference in Toronto came confirmation of what Wall Street has long suspected: that U. S. citizens have...