Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proconsul Verres, a grasping fellow who rose to the governorship of Sicily, "possessed probably the finest eye for works of art of anyone in the ancient world...
Amiably enough piloted from act to act by Tom Ewell (John Loves Mary), Small Wonder is most pepped up by the singing, spoofing and sass of attractive young Mary McCarty (Sleepy Hollow). With only one unhackneyed satirical target, the show has a sharp eye for such riddled ones as movie endings, magazine ads, the Jazz Age. The fresh gag is Ballad for Billionaires (music by Albert Selden, lyrics by Billings Brown). Sample...
Then Goldsmith came under the critical eye of New York State Attorney General Nathaniel Goldstein. In advertisements of his service, he had claimed to have "inside" information. The investigators, suspecting fraud, called in Goldsmith. Where did he get his "inside" information? What Goldsmith told them, reluctantly, made their eyes...
Getting the Eye. Red Curtice was the heir apparent chiefly because of his spectacular job as boss at Buick. An Eaton Rapids (Mich.) boy, Curtice worked as a short-order cook, pushed a fruit cart, clerked in a woolen mill during high-school days. He worked his way through the Ferris Institute at Big Rapids, and, after graduation in 1914 as an accountant, became a bookkeeper in G.M.'s AC Spark Plug division at Flint. Next year he became comptroller at 21, the youngest executive in the auto industry. After a hitch in the Army in World...
Rebirth. Simon & Schuster started publishing in 1924 with $4,000 in cash and no experience, and scored their first hit with a book of crossword puzzles. Ever since they have scanned the U.S. book mart with a cold, discerning eye. They play down fiction, prefer "authoritative information" to literary excellence, and have published such spectacular moneymakers as Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People...