Word: shrewdest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benefactor No. 2 was Dick Skeen, one of the shrewdest teaching pros in the business. For $25 down and $5 a month, he began teaching young Jake how to swing a tennis racket. Each day, the youngster spent three hours on trolley cars, traveling the 18 miles between his home and Skeen's Beverly Hills court. Gradually his strokes took on a Skeen sheen. At 15, Jake easily beat Alice Marble, who was then women's singles champion...
...visitation of Henry Wallace. We took it calmly. But I must confess that there were moments when I had a feeling that this was part of the script of a yet-to-be-produced satirical play called The Forty-Ninth State. Conceive the theme. Henry Wallace, the shrewdest and most far-visioned American political leader of his age, anticipates that the absorption of Britain by the U.S. is inevitable. So he gets out ahead of all possible rivals and corrals the votes of the 49th state. Kingsley Martin; what a Campaign Manager! Dick Grossman; what a Publicity Adviser! Soon...
Chicago's ex-mayor, Ed Kelly, still one of the country's shrewdest political observers, dropped into the White House last week with a few Midwestern Democratic committeemen for an informal chat. On his way out, Ed Kelly made a little prediction about the man he had just seen: "Unless he gets hit by a freight train, he's going to be around for a long time...
...Executive V.P. Bob Kintner (who was once half of the Alsop & Kintner column-writing team), is only 37. But the most important item in the plant is "The Oilcan"-easygoing, 47-year-old Mark Woods.* Mark is one of the best-liked men in radio, and one of the shrewdest. A near-genius at negotiation, he is often asked to handle the industry's top-level labor relations. Lapped in Mark's sunny smile, even the wintry Petrillo has been known to thaw like any spring...
...cellar of a bombed-out building in Vienna several children are wintering like rats. The youngest, Tiny, is lying covered with newspapers in a handcart. The shrewdest, Yid, 13, a pickpocket, bends over her. "She is nearly going," he says to seven-year-old Curls. "Look at her belly. I know, from camp. You can die from a shrink belly or you can die from a balloon belly...