Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flights between New York and Miami (present time: 5½ hours). Pan Am does not expect to get the first of the six Rainbows ordered ($1,200,000 apiece) till late next year. But it may take the slow-moving CAB that long to answer Pan Am's shrewd request...
...fall of 1941, a shrewd Irishwoman named Mrs. Eileen J. Garrett surrounded herself with eager young literary men and started a magazine in Manhattan. She gave showy cocktail parties in her penthouse to introduce herself to the trade. The trade learned that Mrs. Garrett was a "celebrated international medium," who claimed powers of clairvoyance, telepathy and prevision.* The people she picked to run her magazine obviously lacked prevision. Last week Eileen Garrett's Tomorrow had its third editor in 60 days...
...fact that these U.S. international moves were bright with danger had been fully considered and accepted. The London press questioned U.S. wisdom in following such a hard line and made a plea for caution. Echoed a shrewd and veteran Washington observer: "A policy of firmness may lead to peace, but it never has in the past...
...Hersey's report in four articles. Then able, shy co-managing editor Bill Shawn, suggested running the whole thing at once. It took a while to convince Harold Ross, the New Yorker's terrible-tempered editor, a man given to juvenile and profane tantrums, and intuitive, often shrewd judgments. Ross is convinced that everyone on his staff but himself is in danger of going holy. One factor helped decide him: most of the magazine's regular departments (films, theater, books, etc.) were in the summer doldrums. Ross was a little afraid that Hersey's sympathetic piece...
...movie is no match for the story that inspired it, but it is an exceptionally suspenseful, crisp and lively melodrama, distinguished by shrewd casting and playing, plenty of harsh action, and an extra edge of low-life authenticity. Odd literary note: the Hemingway dialogue, well presented in the film, becomes as strangely formalized on the sound track as heroic couplets...