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...That was enough to convince Rickey that his talents were better suited to the front office. Over the next 50-odd years, with the St. Louis Browns, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates, he established himself as "the Mahatma," "the Brain," the brightest innovator, shrewdest trader and smartest judge of talent in the history of baseball...
That was the shrewdest blow of them all and the one to which Charles de Gaulle, the master tactician, reacted the fastest. French farmers and business men, someone may have told him, consider that his crockery smashing on economic cooperation is hurting their pocketbooks. Shedding his shell of ice, the general hobnobbed for an hour in Paris with Britain's Tory Leader Ted Heath, discussed possible British admission to the Common Market, which De Gaulle himself prevented in 1963. Then he met with his Cabinet and had the word put out that "a certain number of obstacles . . . are diminishing...
...Agony and the Ecstasy opens with a prologue celebrating the magnificence of Michelangelo Buonarroti's most famous sculptures: the David, Moses, the Pieta, Bacchus, the Medici tomb figures. It makes a splendid beginning. And even for the shrewdest caterers to popular taste, an act like Michelangelo's is hard to follow. What does follow in this solemn, princely spectacle -drawn by Director Carol Reed and Scenarist Philip Dunne from Irving Stone's low-to-middlebrow biography-shows every evidence of great effort, but the achievements are spotty...
Fortas' devotion to the law. His wife Carolyn, who was his student when he was teaching at Yale, is now a member of his firm and is one of Washington's shrewdest tax lawyers. Husband and wife together draw an estimated $200,000 to $225,000 a year, drive a 1953 Rolls-Royce to their office in a converted Victorian mansion, are now moving to a $250,000 house in Washington's Dumbarton Oaks area...
...Pierre Laval was not only "the shrewdest, most forceful personality in Vichy," but an intensely patriotic Frenchman whose tragic flaw was not :hat he sympathized with Hitler but that ie had "astonishing ignorance about the Germans and supreme confidence in his ability to outsmart them...