Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes an effective half-hour of police drama (from Manhattan files), but loses a lot of sting from its resemblance to NBC's Dragnet (from Los Angeles iles). In its favor, the new show has Actors Everett Sloane and Joan Lorring and Director-Writer Stanley (Gangbusters) Niss, an expert at creating minor personalities. 21st Precinct captures the sounds and scenes of everyday police work; the characters are all underplayed, just like Dragnet (which pretty much originated that school of radio acting, and has lately begun underplaying its own underplaying). Unsponsored...
...does not interfere with the right of other people to do the same thing . . . Gradually this philosophy has been replaced by the idea that happiness can only be conferred upon the people by the grace of an efficient government. Only the government, it is said, has the expert knowledge necessary for the people's welfare...
...Army. When Tomorrow the World closed, Shirley camp-followed her husband through the South until 1945, then returned to Manhattan for her first musical, Hollywood Pinafore, in which she played the part of a gossip columnist called Louhedda Hopsons. During the war years, Shirley, who is an expert dancer, cut many a rug at the Stage Door Canteen...
...Course. Abboud built his industrial pyramid with the calm judgment of an expert manager, the intuition of a poker player, and-according to his enemies-some of the tactics of a Washington five-percenter. He has supported some governments, worked for the fall of others he didn't get along with, and was closely allied with the corrupt Wafdist Party. When the Wafdists came to power in 1951. they quashed some 140 tax evasion suits against his interests. Nevertheless, when Strongman Naguib took over last year and was asked what he intended to do about Abboud, he replied: "Give...
...Netherlands, there are 1,100,000 tons of ships worth $186 million on order. In Italy the yards turned out 131,951 tons of shipping last year, including the liner Andrea Doria, but they are heavily dependent upon government subsidies and none too efficient. (A U.S. economic expert recommended recently that six of Italy's 15 major shipyards be shut down...