Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dutra there are two ways out. He can let the Army stage a coup and abolish Congress. Or he can seize upon some incident to declare a "state of siege" under which the Communists can be squelched. Because he wants to govern legally, Dutra has refused the first alternative. Shrewd observers do not think the well-disciplined Communists will give him any excuse for the second...
...Franklin Myth. In another crisis, a generation before, shrewd Cyrus H. K. Curtis had put in young George Horace Lorimer, who ran the Post for 39 years (1898-1937). Curtis had bought the feeble Post and its 2,222 circulation for $1,000 in 1897. (The logotype then read "Founded A.D. 1821." Curtis, stretching the facts a bit, changed it to "Founded A.D. 1728 by Benj. Franklin." Actually Ben didn't found it, but simply bought a magazine called the Pennsylvania Gazette, which eventually became the Post...
...confabbed with RKO Production Boss Dore Schary, 20th Century-Fox Boss Spyros Skouras, who is an old friend, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Railroader & Picturemaker Robert R. Young, who will show Rank around the U.S. in his private car. They all listened to Mr. Rank with respect. As one shrewd U.S. movieman said: "Rank is one of the seven or eight key men they are counting on over there to pull them...
...Nell, and one daughter, Ursula, 27. (The other daughter, Mrs. Fred Packard, lives in Hollywood.) "The Rank love story," sigh friends, "is one of the most beautiful ever told." The Ranks are, in fact, two exceedingly happy multimillionaires. They are inseparable. Nell, who has contributed her millions and her shrewd advice to her husband's moviemaking, accompanied...
...Barber of Seville (Tespi; Excelsior), made in Italy, is a full-length movie opera. It is a pretty good comedy-dressed up in Rossini's very good music-about a shrewd fixer who helps a love-struck count in his courtship of a girl whose guardian wants her for himself. The course of true love involves a full-throated serenade, a sneaked love letter, a couple of disguises, some comic policemen, and denouements in which the entire company tears around singing its head off. The Italian lyrics are occasionally paraphrased in English captions, and before each act, Deems Taylor...