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...Selznick, she combines and uses the talents of ace trouble shooter, saleswoman, fixer, promoter, talent scout, fashion ex pert, beauty expert and housemother. Ingrid Bergman would prefer not to be photographed unless Colby is on hand. Jennifer Jones thinks twice about blowing her nose without reporting to Colby. Inde pendent of Publicity Chief Don King, she works closely with Selznick, handling all deals public and personal which call for grade-A finesse. Her social and journalistic contacts in both New York and Hollywood are peerless; she calls Winchell Walter and Lyons Lennie. To all the people on earth who most...
Platitudinous Paraphrase. Sensing the growing strain on U.S.-British relations, Britain last week dispatched its ace trouble shooter, Minister of State Richard K. Law, to Washington...
Chungking asked a question: now that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had strengthened his Government (TIME, Nov. 27), what about Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, the Gissimo's able, Harvard-trained brother-in-law? Once called "Asia's greatest statesman," T. V. Soong was an ace trouble shooter and efficiency expert in government. And what about the powerful Cheng Hsueh Hsi (Political Science Group), the organization of Chinese businessmen who favor swifter modernization of their country's political and economic structure...
...Caffery talents offered no clue to Washington's future course toward De Gaulle. If the U.S. drifts into full recognition of the Paris Government, Diplomat Caffery is an expert at the old game of diplomatic drifting. But he is also known as a hardheaded trouble shooter...
With the air of a man stating a fact familiar to all, Dick Bong said that he had never been "a very hot shooter." He was assigned to go to school now to learn deflection shooting, which he would teach to new pilots. He made it clear that he did not think highly of the Air Forces system of gunnery instruction...