Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nadine Duwez handled the title role with considerable skill. The Creon of Elias Kulukundis '60 was a bit awkward. Earle Edgerton '56 directed, and others in the cast included Debbie Gayle, Mary Cass, Herb Propper, Sidney Davis, William Batchelder '59, Robert Hesse '59, and Nicholas Thompson '60.22"No Exit": MARY CASS and EARLE EDGERTON...
Investor (real estate, oil) Bus Mosbacher is only 36, but he has matched tacks and tactics with Shields for a decade-mostly in the hard-sailing International class and dinghies-on the waters of Long Island Sound. A sailor since childhood, Mosbacher is famed for his starts and his skill with light...
Anywhere, Any Time. Round Table's moneymaking skill comes mainly from a pair of homely virtues: he is placid and tough, ready to run anywhere, any time. He is indifferent to cross-continental flights (eight so far) that make other thoroughbreds airsick. He is at his best in races over a mile-and the longer the better. Despite his small frame, he has won eight handicap races carrying 130 Ibs. or more (neither Citation nor Nashua ever won carrying that much). Says Trainer Molter: "He hasn't even had a snotty nose since...
...first case of murder in which the aid of insulin was proved. Said the bewigged Mr. Justice Diplock: "But for a high degree of detective ability, [it] would not have been found out. Those responsible for the scientific research ... are to be very highly congratulated for [their] skill and patience." Barlow was sentenced to life imprisonment. The medical researchers are churning out bushels of data to help colleagues find the flaw in any such "perfect crime...
...skyscraper hives, for that is where the honey is. But somehow their lives, loves and labors leave the cuprous taste of pennies in their mouths; the middle-income bracket is their social vise. Few writers have probed the masked anxieties of the "have-not-enoughs" with the skill and authority of John (The Wapshot Chronicle) Cheever, 46. After Marquand, he is the ablest chronicler of the interior life of the organization...