Word: masterminding
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Some checkers sharks have turned to writing books about the game. Latest guide is The Modern Encyclopedia of Checkers ($5), compiled and published by pompous, publicity-loving, 36-year-old William F. Ryan, a barnstorming champion who advertises himself as the game's No. 1 mastermind...
Errol Flynn collapsed at work, was put in a Hollywood hospital for at least a week. "A recurrence of an upper respiratory ailment." Joel Kupperman, radio's little mastermind, turned seven and spotty, called off his birthday party. Measles...
...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...