Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even Keel. But Uruguayans have also to thank the skill of their government for their good fortune. One prime reason for Uruguay's escape from inflation is that she spends little money on armament. Another is that she did not attempt overambitious postwar industrial expansion, confined it in the main to buying new textile machinery, a couple of hydroelectric plants, a limited amount of farm machinery...
Fighting Father Dunne (RKO Radio), a St. Louis priest (circa 1900), gets interested in newsboys who are tough and toughly used. Thanks to a disconcerting, downright embarrassing skill at cadging, badgering and sharp dealing in the interests of a good cause, he manages to found a home for them-first a ramshackle old wooden one, at last a portly new brick one. The boys, needless to say, are mischievous little devils but angels at heart. The one exception (Darryl Hickman) is ruined by the influence of his particularly villainous father (well played by Joseph Sawyer...
...Indonesian government's bulk buying & selling in the U.S. and will try to find U.S. risk capital to build up the islands' mines and industries. Says Dr. Soemitro Djojoadikoesoemo, Indonesian trade commissioner to the U.S. who negotiated the deal: "We need U.S. capital and skill ... We like Matty...
Howdy, Mr. Ice has. besides, some engaging newcomers: the 1948 Olympics' pretty Eileen Seigh, a figure skater of uncommon grace and skill; Former Model Jinx Clark; Jazz Skater Rudy Richards, who jitterbugs remarkably, but with the slight-and highly welcome-touch of restraint that ice and skates impose. Even more rewarding are two such Center standbys as Skippy Baxter, who can skate both very fast and fancy, and Freddie Trenkler, for whose great comic shenanigans familiarity only breeds admiration...
Moira Shearer's pert, clean-limbed dancing is by no means up to the superb technical and dramatic skill of Sadler's Wells' prima ballerina, Margot Fonteyn. But Moira does have what one starry-eyed London critic called "deerlike littleness and midsummer coloring...