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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Front-running Spy Song and stretch-driving Hampden were closest. Elizabeth Arden Graham's even-money entry finished out of the money. Knockdown ran out of gas after seven furlongs; Lord Boswell, with usually shrewd Eddie Arcaro up, twice ran into pockets on the backstretch. This week's $100,000 Preakness at Baltimore would tell whether Assault was really that good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Assault, by Himself | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Last week, as Tom Dewey looked forward to his first week's vacation in 17 months and to his campaign for re-election in November, no shrewd political dopester counted him out of the 1948 Presidential race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Star of Albany | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...shrewd analysis of an economist and the human reaction of a representative of the American electorate were brought into play last night as the proposed $3,750,000,000 United States loan to Great Britain was debate at the Law School Forum in New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senator, Economist and Historian Argue on Proposed British Loan | 4/27/1946 | See Source »

...Discord. The solemn dedication to the "larger national cause" began to waver after the war. The shrewd, suave Moslem saw a shrewd, complexly simple Hindu, Mohandas Gandhi, step into the leadership of the nationalist Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Long Shadow | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Even at his trial Chen was in the shadow of a more colorful and sinister puppet. Wang Ching-wei's shrewd, fat, diabetic, bad-tempered widow, Chen Pi-chun, came before the court this week. Wang's closest political adviser, she henpecked her handsome husband and bullied her four grown children, three of whom have also been jailed. Chen Pi-chun was unrepentant, but she wrote her children that she was ready, even eager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Exhibit Greatness | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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