Word: crackerjacks
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...situation. For example, while the meek here waits in the street, three women wrangle over his future in progressively laundering voices. At the peak of feminine fury a revival parade marches by, bearing a banner: BEEWARE THE WRATH TO COME. These unexpected dividends of chuckles, like the prize in Crackerjack, are the more welcome for being quite detached from the plot and from one's expectations...
...three months Quesada has been busy recruiting, already has a cadre of 15 crackerjack scientists, headed by Dr. Ernst H. Krause, 41, former associate director of research for nucleonics at Washington's Naval Research Laboratory. Laboratory construction will start early this fall. Eventually, Quesada hopes to make back 80% of the $10 million total cost to Lockheed, but he will never try to make his new laboratory show a profit. Says Quesada: "Scientists function best when they know that they can work without dictation and develop theories irrespective of military contracts. We hope that through our ability...
...some peanuts and crackerjack...
...Tribune). He was satisfied that his opera gets across to its audiences. In any case, Antheil does not have to make his living from his Volpones or from his symphonies (six so far, with a seventh in the works). His fiscal foundation: scoring an occasional Hollywood film. Besides writing crackerjack scores for such movies as Specter of the Rose, The Sniper, The Juggler, In a Lonely Place, Antheil admits that he is quietly fostering a reputation as a musical medicine man who can pull a loosely knit film together by music alone. "If I say so myself," he says...
...salaried staffman, Surgeon Blalock has no private patients, never sees a penny of the fees for his operations: all the money goes to the university. A painstaking administrator, he is also a crackerjack lecturer, wasting no words and never losing his temper. Only in the operating room when, with a heart exposed, life may be in the balance for hours, does Dr. Blalock's gentle voice betray his tension. As soon as possible after his work is done, he relaxes with chain-smoked cigarettes. Weekends, he fishes or plays golf (in the 80s, despite an unsurgeonly waggle...