Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Churchill named a Cabinet that was truly a coalition, but the balance of power, in terms of popular following, shifted from the Conservatives (who have 374 seats in the House of Commons) to Labor (which has 164 seats). Smart Winston Churchill knew that his only chance to win the war lay in the enthusiastic support of the working classes. Backed by press and public, with no real opposition from the abdicating ruling class, he brought forward such men as Minister of Supply Herbert Stanley Morrison, longtime Laborite Leader of the London County Council and Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin...
...small part of Chip's success is due to Evie Robert, his second wife, a stun ning blonde, tall, blue-eyed and smart. She loves parties, horses and publicity. After their marriage in 1935 they became the glamor boy & girl of the New Deal. Chip became secretary of the Democratic National Committee, a job which pays no salary, involves no duties. But there were some people in Washington who thought that even this phantom post might be useful to Chip Robert. One day last week a fellow Georgian, Representative Carl Vinson, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, read into...
...sure we'll do at least one picture a year. However, I want Shirley to have the opportunity to get a normal schooling, so we won't make any plans which will keep her as busy as she has been in the past." One rumor-that smart little Producer Joseph Pasternak would team her with Fred Astaire-exploded last week, although Shirley, in one of her frequent pranks, had recently paid Pasternak's ace director, Henry Roster, ten cents to make the film. Meantime she is touring California with her mother before entering the eighth grade...
...Smart, ambitious little Billy Rose has spent most of his 40 years writing songs, producing shows, collecting money and curvesome Swimmer Eleanor Holm, whom he married after a divorce from Fanny Brice. Last week Showman Rose revealed himself as a collector of art. Mr. Rose has some 20 canvases, mostly Old Masters, which he began buying a year aro to hang in his house on Manhattan's swank Beekman Place...
...Krupp. He had designs on a number of industries in which foreign patent tie-ups were said to be restricting U. S. production, among them magnesium, whose chief producer, Dow Chemical Co., has built an independent U. S. magnesium industry (using sea water as ore) from its own smart research. Arnold also got off a phrase about "economic fifth columnists" which he later tried to define, finally retracted. The vagueness of his charges, coupled with the fact that no indictments were announced, got him a bad press. The Wall Street Journal editorialized about "Folklore of Magnesium." But last week Arnold...