Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best Bets. The odds on the Browns, who had never won a pennant but had led this year's parade almost from opening day, had lengthened from 1-to-6 to even money. The smart money was on the Tigers and the Yankees...
Meanwhile smart Joe McCarthy, who kept insisting that his Yankees could win, was not missing a trick. He picked up the veteran Paul Waner, released by the Dodgers, for pinch-hitting duties - and saw him deliver the first time up. From Newark he called up strong-arm rookie pitchers Mel Queen and Floyd Bevens-and already had a 6-1 record for the two to back his judgment. And the apple of McCarthy's managerial eye, speedy Second Baseman George Stirnweiss, was going strong as ever: he had stolen 49 bases in 55 attempts and was leading the League...
Americans who entered Paris last week were amazed.* They had expected to find the Parisians starved, tattered, numb with oppression. Instead, the people looked about the same as they did before the Nazi occupation. The women had smart clothes and cosmetics, the children looked chubby and well-fed. There was plenty of beer and wine-even champagne...
...Northwest, once prodigal of its vast forests, learned that dead timber was useful when smart operators began logging the scene of the tremendous Tillamook fire in 1933, almost as soon as the ashes were cold. But wartime demand has produced scores of smaller woods-salvage operations. The best plywood logs are from virgin-growth trees, but chunks need be no longer than 8½feet. As a result farmers are logging lo-foot stumps left by pioneer woods crews near Grays Harbor, and selling them for prices ranging from $20 to $40. And the rush to harvest long-dead timber...
Henreid tries to make love like Boyer and falls miserably, while smart-aleck Garfield, though he often over-plays his supporting part, steals the show. A verbal tiff between Coulouris and Garfield, injects a little social consciousness into the story, with good effect. Except for Henreid and a young woman whose name is new and easily forgotten, "Between Two Worlds" is well acted and well directed; it's just too long and knocks itself from grade A by artificial loftiness...