Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YOUR NEWSWEEK McCALL ARTICLE YOU MIGHT ALSO WELL HAVE SAID THAT "MR. WARNER HAD THE SKILL OR LUCK TO PICK" EDITOR HARRY PAYNE BURTON NOW OF COSMOPOLITAN WHO TOOK A HOPELESSLY AMATEURISH PATTERN MAGAZINE FROM A MILLION CIRCULATION TO MORE THAN TWO MILLION...
...founders of new cults in Manhattan, anxious to read hidden meanings into her brilliantly colored, smoothly painted studies of skulls, feathers, roses, bones, morning glories and strange black crosses. In the new paintings exhibited last week, Artist O'Keeffe had given up crosses for turkey feathers, but the skill and the brilliant color are as obvious as ever...
...Bill Glendinning, who defeated Charlie Toll, Princeton football captain-elect, the Varsity wrestlers lost to Princeton 23-11 Saturday night at the Indoor Athletic Building. Glendinning, unbeaten in two years of Varsity competition, conceded his opponent five inches in height and forty pounds in weight advantage but showed sufficient skill to pin Toll's shoulders after one minute and forty five seconds of the first overtime had elapsed...
...Post's music critic, Samuel Chotzinoff, simply refused to believe Toscanini was through with the U. S. Chotzinoff for years has been a great friend of the maestro, is so devoted to him that many call him "Chotzinini." In Manhattan he is known for his pithy paragraphs, his skill as an accompanist, his desire to make music accessible to all. Recently Chotzinoff began to have long talks with David Sarnoff, president of RCA. Last month Critic Chotzinoff went on a mysterious "vacation," stopped in Milan at the house of his old friend Toscanini. Cables and radiograms began to flick...
...this fashion through 155 stations in the U. S., 15 in Canada. So popular did the broadcasts become that nearly 200 newspapers reprinted the studio games for their bridge fans. Today Cardman Albert believes that the trend will turn toward old num- bers like hearts, poker, pinochle, where individual skill is more important than teamwork. So long as the U. S. plays cards Mr. Albert does not care what the game happens to be. For years his com pany has made more than one-half the decks sold in the U. S. (last year's total...