Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DiMaggio's talented teammates look up to him as the man who sparks the show, but Joe himself says: "It's the man at the helm ... the pilot." The man at the helm is shrewd Manager Bucky Harris. Not the least of his talents is keeping peace between the players and rambunctious Larry MacPhail, the club president. The blowoff that cleared the air came May 22, when MacPhail fined six stubborn players (including DiMaggio) for refusing to cooperate with the Yankee promotion office. From that day, with the team mad, the Yankees rolled up 34 victories...
Owen's dickering urge is so strong that his wife is hardly able to get him to buy her a new saddle horse: "He's likely to sell [it] on the way home." Away from horseflesh, Owen is not so shrewd. Recently he lost around $125,000 on a zinc mine. However, he expects to make up much of the loss on his Mexican deal. Already he has shipped 1,000 mules, has another 1,000 ready to go. He figures on filling the rest of his contract long before Congress gets around to doing anything about mules...
They Won't Believe Me. Robert Young and Susan Hayward in a shrewd, sordid show about love and money (TIME, June...
Chevigny expects to be "a going concern" as a radio writer "at least until television takes over." His skill is backed by a cold nose for the main chance: he sold NBC on his Plays by Ear, partly by the shrewd hint that a blind writer for an invisible medium makes not only good sense but also good publicity copy...
They Won't Believe Me. Robert Young and Susan Hayward in a shrewd, sordid show about love and money (TIME, June...