Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flaccid handshake, a venomous temper and the general bearing of a small-town pool-hall operator. Crowds bother him and he cannot hide a furtive wariness when job seekers approach him. He is a dedicated horseplayer-who makes two dollar bets. But he has the "Long Look" and a shrewd insight into the mind of Louisiana's tobacco-chewing common...
...highbrow Institute for Advanced Study, has done much better. In a newly published book of bold erudition (The Medici Chapel; Princeton University Press, $20) De Tolnay interprets the entire chapel in the light of a single theme. Deep inside De Tolnay's brier patch of facts and shrewd guesses lies new evidence that Michelangelo, like all great artists, was a genius in mind and spirit as well as in eye and hand...
...kingpin Commies went into court in New York City, put up $30,000 in Treasury bonds for bail and walked jauntily out (see cut). They were old (67), ailing William Z. Foster, a radical for almost 50 years, thrice the C.P.'s presidential candidate, now its chairman; shrewd, greying Eugene Dennis, C.P. general secretary, already on bond awaiting appeal of his one-year sentence for contempt of Congress (TIME, July 7, 1947); tall, Harvard-trained Benjamin J. Davis, New York City's only Negro (and only Communist) councilman; bald John Williamson, the party's labor secretary...
...phone; an editor had a message for his boss. The butler and maid went to wake their mistress. They found her in her big bed, slumped over a book and an early edition of her paper. A heart attack had killed copper-haired Eleanor Medill Patterson, 63, the vain, shrewd, lonely, and lavishly spoiled woman who used a newspaper to speak her whims with a quarter of a million tongues...
...Corp., bought from the Rockefellers. All told, the companies Allen has a guiding hand in have a net worth of above $200 million, net $15 to $20 million a year profit. Allen does not look for immediate earnings but for long-term capital gains. Its income from banking and shrewd investing is big enough to keep the four working partners (three of them are Aliens) looking for more branches for its ever-growing empire...