Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close has been the association of Catto and Keynes-sometimes referred to as Lords Catto and Doggo-that some observers predicted a revolution in Britain's financial policy. In fact, Lord Catto's appointment was simply one more instance of Britain's genius for adapting all kinds of talent to the service of King and country...
...even Cover Girl's story-the one really conventional thing about it-gets in its way. It concerns the nightclub's proud proprietor (Gene Kelly), his one true love among the chorines (Rita Hayworth- and their friend, a clown called Genius (Phil Silvers). A glossy Manhattan publisher (Otto Kruger) sees in Miss Hayworth the image of her grandmother, whom he loved in his youth (Miss Hayworth is glimpsed briefly, more fully clad, in Tony Pastor flashbacks). He puts her on the cover of his magazine, Vanity. After that it is only a question of time before she bolts...
...English Genius." A small, bald, mustached man, General Fuller was retired from the British Army in 1933 for a sharp (and justified) cry for reforms in army mechanizations. Later, he was a candidate for Parliament on Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist ticket. He argued the Axis case, appeared with a glib Briton named William Joyce, who became better known as "Lord Haw Haw" (see cut) when England faced destruction. On the war's eve, Hitler invited General Fuller to his birthday celebration. (Said Radio Berlin: ". . . The English genius...
...four. As a youth he worked as a patternmaker in his father's stove shop in Detroit, caught the eye of Henry Ford by turning out patterns no one else seemed able to make. He showed the same rule-of-thumb genius when he went to work for Ford, translating Ford's production ideas into complex patterns of men & machines spilling out cars. When Ford dreamed of an activated production line, Sorensen tied a rope to a chassis, pulled it through the plant to see how the idea would work. Harddriving, brusque, he had little patience with underlings...
More monuments to human genius are crowded into the Italian peninsula than into any other like area in the world. If Italy is steadily bombed or shelled, man's most concentrated cultural record may be destroyed. This dilemma reverberated in the letters column of the London Times last week. The issue-Art v. Human Life in Wartime-was first raised by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Lang of Lambeth (see p. 62). "It would indeed be lamentable," he wrote, "if by the action of our armies . . . incomparable treasures of the history of art and of religion were destroyed...