Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan's smart publishing team Simon & Schuster have a profitable system. Instead of waiting around for authors with ideas, they furnish the idea themselves and hire a likely author to do the job. Since they first tried out their system with Will Durant's Story of Philosophy, they have successfully sold a volume apiece on religion, art, mathematics, history, science, adventure and astronomy. Last week they got around to music...
...Smith Goes to Washington (Columbia). Last week U. S. audiences, smiling in anticipation, trooped into movie houses to see smart Director Frank Capra repeat his Mr. Deeds Goes to Town in a Boy Scout uniform and a Senator's ten-gallon hat. What they saw was just as funny as Mr. Deeds, but it did not leave them smiling...
Swarthmore's smart President Frank Aydelotte has the special and delicate job of looking after 96 of the best young brains in the U. S.-the Rhodes Scholars. After war was declared last month, Dr. Aydelotte (U. S. secretary for the scholarships) lost no time in calling his precious charges home from Oxford (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week not only Dr. Aydelotte but a solicitous nation demonstrated how much it prized Rhodes scholarship...
...Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, bargaining, eating, occasionally sleeping. Clarence Dillon wanted to sell the automobile company bought four years before by Dillon, Read & Co. from the widows of Motormakers John and Horace Dodge. Walter P. Chrysler, as expert a machinist as ever stood at a lathe, as smart a trader as ever swapped a horse, wanted...
Last week, K. T. Keller was busiest in the engineering department where Chrysler's smart research staff is already busy on 1941 models. It is there the first work is done on K. T. Keller's only recipe for a successful business: "Put out a good product: if it's lousy, you better quit...