Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. Joe Pasternak, 50, Hungarian-born movie producer (Three Smart Girls, The Great Caruso); by onetime Movie Starlet Dorothy Hallenbeck (Dorothy Darrell), 31, who charged extreme mental cruelty, e.g., he criticized her before her friends; after ten years of marriage, three children; in Burbank, Calif...
...handsome Euclides Guterres' home on the south Brazilian cattle ranges, the skies were not cloudy all day-till the flying machines came. Then, a few years ago, some smart fellows bought themselves a lot of little airplanes and opened a flying club just a hoot and a holler from the ranch where Cowboy Euclides worked. After that, the crazy things flew all over the place, diving at his cattle, scaring his pony, and impressing the girls so much that for the first time in Euclides' courting life, the girls had discouraging words for a mere ground-bound gaucho...
...aerial stuntman in the '20s and as a commercial airline pilot in the '30s, James Henry Carmichael earned a reputation for smart flying. Since becoming president of Capital Airlines in 1947, "Slim" Carmichael has shown the same talent for piloting an airline. He took over Capital when it was losing more than $2,000,000 a year, cut costs by slashing his staff to the bone and boosted business by starting cut-rate coach service. In 4½-years, he pulled Capital out of its nose dive, climbed to a $1,756,490 profit...
...News was carrying the names as a "public service," but it was also a smart circulation stunt. The paper hit on the idea while getting together a series on income taxes a fortnight ago. When it heard about the unclaimed lode in a single district (Manhattan's Third), it sold the U.S. Treasury the idea of printing the names as an experiment in getting the refunds paid. The city desk assigned a special staff to compile lists of taxpayers owed $100 or more. The News expects to run the lists (totaling about 6,000 names) for almost two weeks...
...smart lawyer named David Marcus for two years appealed the case up the ladder of the higher California courts. Most of the judges attacked the brutality of the arrest, but, conforming to California precedents, upheld the conviction...