Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indiana's oratorically reckless (but politically shrewd) William E. Jenner, 49, ardent supporter of the late Joe McCarthy, and McCarthy's successor as the Senate's most outspoken right-winger. Jenner's curt and unexpected announcement, stating no reason for his decision, shocked Indiana Republicans, who had considered him a good bet to win in 1958 no matter whom the Democrats nominated. Groping for an explanation of Jenner's decision, Republican State Chairman Robert Matthews said the Senator was "just tired of carrying on the fight for conservatism by himself." But some observers of Indiana...
...this was a tribute to the cultivated taste and shrewd buying of a comparatively little-known French financial wizard who rarely paid over $10,000 for a painting, rarely made a bad buy. Born in Paris plain Leon Georges Levy, he early attracted the attention of the Rothschild family, who started him off as a clerk in the Rothschild bank, used him as a broker for their interests when he went into business for himself. He was soon collecting art. Just before the fall of France, he sailed for the U.S. (where he changed his name to Lurcy), managed...
When at last the French were forced to bring the family back from exile, Aisha's return was celebrated with almost as much jubilation as that of the Sultan himself. As a shrewd and progressive monarch, her father (who will visit the U.S. later this month) had planned Aisha's role from the start as a complement to his ,own political struggle. The Sultan placed his children's education in the hands of capable private French teachers. "I want you to treat my children like other children," the Sultan said. "Call the girls by their title...
...Though doubtless now our shrewd machines...
Died. Mary Gunning (Maguire) Colum, 70, "incorrigibly Irish" critic (From These Roots) and autobiographer (Life and the Dream), guest professor of comparative literature at Columbia University, whose seasoned literary criticism was always lucid and shrewd, often eloquent and powerful; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A student member of the Dublin circle of writers and poets who led the "Irish literary renaissance" before World War I, she married (in 1912) Padraic Colum, poet-dramatist founder of the Irish Review, settled with him in the U.S. Her last work-in-progress (with her husband): Our Friend James Joyce...