Word: shrewdest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Heber Jedediah Grant, 88, seventh President and Prophet of the Church of the Latter-day Saints (Mormons) since his succession (by seniority) in 1918, also its 33rd Apostle, and one of Utah's shrewdest, most successful insurance men and bankers; in Salt Lake City. Only son of the fifth wife of Salt Lake City's first mayor, Grant organized his first insurance company with $45 capital, preached his religion from England to Japan, outlived two of the three wives he married before the Church outlawed polygamy...
Gortatowsky's physical slightness is concealed by skilled double-breasted tailor ing; his keen-edged, taskmasterish mind is concealed by a lulling Southern murmur and a beatific smile. Of all ways to get ahead in the Hearst empire-beyond the first essential, obedience-Gorty chose one of the shrewdest: unobtrusiveness...
...Royal Scandal (20th Century-Fox) was originally a play called The Czarina, a distinctly minor example of the Budapest school of perky lubricity. Some 20 years ago Director Ernst Lubitsch turned it into Forbidden Paradise, one of the shrewdest high-comedies in screen history. Producer Lubitsch's new version, which is directed by Otto (Laura) Preminger, has its points too, most of which are named Tallulah Bankhead. But all told, they just about manage to get the show...
Least known of the nine, outside of Army circles, is softspoken, sandy-haired, 53-year-old Tom Handy. Graduate of V.M.I., artillery expert and one of the Army's shrewdest strategists, Tom Handy is Deputy Chief of Staff. The promotion of desk-bound General Handy ahead of more publicized field commanders (like George Patton, Courtney Hodges, William Simpson) underlined the importance of the home-front military...
Tall, amiable, crinkle-eyed Tom Stokes, 46, one of the nation's shrewdest, most diligent and forthright political reporters, started work under Clapper at United News ("sort of the night side of the U.P.") in Washington in 1923. He says, "I really learned whatever I know about politics and what makes it tick from...