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...head researcher, Dorothy Haystead, who, in her twelve years in "biz," has counseled, comforted and cajoled a generation of TIME writers and researchers. When figures from different sources clash headon, Haystead resolves them by a process of statistical triangulation supplemented by what Senior Editor Church regards as "a very shrewd and savvy judgment." Besides her duties as teacher and statistician, Haystead also prepares the column "Market Week" for TIME'S overseas editions. Not least, her unflappable calm steadies the section through journalistic crises. "I can tell her late Friday that we are scheduling some huge story and need...
...three are shrewd and idealistic men," Peretz said...
...much affection as ridicule. Comedians competed to crack a smile on his stony face; mimics used him as a lab specimen. His malapropisms became legend. "Let's hear it for the Lord's Prayer," he once intoned after Sergio Franchi sang that hymn. A shrewd judge of talent, Sullivan introduced 25,000 performers to American TV, many, such as Bob Hope, Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Liza Minnelli, for the first time. His formula was simple: "Open big, have a good comedy act, put in something for children and keep the show clean...
Patton's diaries and letters are full of shrewd, petulant and uncharitable observations. Toward Eisenhower, Patton was often privately savage, especially when he thought Ike was being too cozy with the British. He noted that Eisenhower had started wearing suede shoes, "à la British." To his wife Beatrice he wrote that Ike "spoke of lunch as 'tiffin' and of gasoline as 'petrol.' I truly fear that London has conquered Abilene." Because Eisenhower said he regarded himself as an Ally rather than specifically an American, Patton said he was "damned near to being Benedict Arnold...
...starting at 11 a.m., sipping rum and feasting on fried chicken, the regatta is a reminder of what rowing used to be. As they admire the precision and the colors, and revel in the bygone aristocratic ambience, most are unaware of the dog-eat-dog competition--the aggressive rowing, shrewd steering, even the confidence in a coxswain's voice--which separates the winners from the nature lovers...