Word: masterminding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ingenious spy picture which engages in a lot of good-natured spoofing of the standard Hollywood thriller. Robert Young (sent to cover the war in Africa because he is a typical "smalltown reporter"), Reginald Owen (a Nazi Intelligence officer posing as a British Intelligence officer), Edward Ciannelli (an Oriental mastermind) and Jeanette MacDonald engage in a game of deliberately slapstick I Spy. Climax comes when the sympathetic vibrations of Singer MacDonald's high C tickle open a secret door into a pyramid, foil a Nazi plot to bomb a U.S. transport by remote control...
...recent varsity players now in khaki, is split into two task forces: Eastern and Western. The Western group is coached by Major Wallace Wade, whose Alabama and Duke teams have been picked for the Rose Bowl five times. The Eastern group, under Colonel Bob Neyland-another football mastermind whose bone-crushing Tennessee teams won 30 straight games in 1938-39-40-will start its four-game series against the New York Giants Sept...
...first inning, and once again by American League power. The Red-White-&-Blues had Sluggers Cecil Travis, Sam Chapman, Don Padgett, and Morrie Arnovich; but they were no match for razor-sharp batsmen like Ted Williams, Lou Boudreau, Joe Di Maggio, Rudy York. So Manager Mickey Cochrane, onetime Tiger mastermind, stepping out of comfortable retirement last spring to take over the barnstorming baseball team of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and drafted to manage Uncle Sam's allstars, had to rely on superior pitching...
There was plenty for him to do in his new job. Badly needed was a mastermind to straighten out the tangle and confusion of Lend-Lease red tape and to synchronize U.S. production and purchasing with British and Russian needs. The Beaver knew how to cut red tape. Whether the brilliant, bumptious outspoken millionaire was the right man to handle all the delicate bric-a-brac of human relationships involved was something else again...
...crews for the annual one-mile race which concludes the fall season. In the meantime Bolles will spend his time trying to improve what many thought to be an impeccable crew last spring. "There is no such thing as a perfect crew man," says Bolles, and until the studious mastermind of Harvard rowing finds eight of them Harvard will continue to row in the fall, and probably after...