Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. Forest Evashevski, 22, captain, quarterback and star blocker of the University of Michigan's football team; and Ruth Brown, 22, daughter of Michigan's Senator Prentiss M. Brown; in St. Ignace, Mich. Announced Senator Brown airily: "Most of that smart quarterbacking at Michigan...
...luxe London hotels offered Christmas goose and turkey dinners, and a quartet of carol singers in Dickens costumes were hired to wander from one smart London restaurant to another, taking up charity collections for the blind. As usual, London theatres staged the "Christmas Pantomimes" they have revived over & over for generations. In that hoary favorite Aladdin And His Wonderful Lamp last week a few blitz jokes were gently inserted - such as changing the line "Clear the way, clear the way!" into "All clear, all clear!" This year, more than ever, adult Britons went with their moppets to these children...
Docile, Shrewd, Smart. Ten years in the U. S. have put Lily Pons and the English language on a footing of jovial acquaintance rather than intimacy. Her soprano chatter is the sort which newspaper interviewers, transcribing every zis and zat with loving care, particularly admire. Of England's late King George V she said: "Ze Keeng-he ees tres gentil-zo zhentle, zo keeng." Of a shoe which was too small for even her No. 2 foot: ;'Eet ees no. I cannot enter." Pert and naive-looking with her big brown eyes, her childish face framed...
Biggest downpour was in Detroit. Signing a new agreement with United Auto Workers, Chrysler Corp. granted bonuses of $40 each to some 60,000 workmen (in lieu of vacations with pay), a 2? raise in hourly pay besides. To most observers, it looked as if smart Chrysler had made another smart move. The $40 bonus, which will give employes about $2,250,000, actually will cost Chrysler only about $855,000 net (considering both normal and excess-profits tax savings...
...realm of the infinitesimally small. Using magnetically focused electron beams instead of light beams, it discloses details (of germs, chemicals, etc.) 20 or more times finer than can be seen with optical microscopes (TIME, Oct. 28). Fortnight ago its beams cleared up another dark corner. In Rochester, tart, smart, British-born Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, head of research at Eastman Kodak Co., announced it had upset old notions of how silver is distributed in photographic films...