Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kimball broke out the two men's service records. Conolly is the Navy's most decorated admiral (D.S.M. with two gold stars, Legion of Merit with one gold star, Navy Cross), is smart and well liked, but has spent almost his entire service at sea or in overseas commands. Kimball hardly knew him. Fechteler he had come to know and admire when the admiral was Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (for personnel) after the war. In the close teamwork between CNO and Navy Secretary, old friends are best, especially if both are new at their jobs...
...long movie career; MGM's expert sound technicians, who now do virtually no tampering with Lanza's voice, can work wonders with their electronic gadgets. And if the scripts seem anticlimactic after The Great Caruso, he can always look ahead to the all-fracturing day when some smart producer will star Mario Lanza, in The Great Lanza...
...playing Captain Ichiya ("Ichy") Kumagae, now 60, remembering those better days, grinned as of old, but he was a little chagrined. Said he: "Not good. We need more international experience. Nakano was on top of Savitt and let him off the hook. To me, that is not smart tennis...
...Italian Communist boss, and his motherly wife, Communist Senator Rita Montagnana, after 27 years of marriage. Last year when the Togliattis left their deluxe apartment on the left bank of the Tiber, Rita went to live in Turin with their son Aldo, 26, and Palmiro moved out to a smart suburban villa in Rome. Last week they got a legal separation, which, however, does not permit them to remarry. Rumor said Togliatti might get a divorce outside Italy. The other woman: his personal secretary, buxom Communist Deputy Leonilde lotti, 31, with whom he has been keeping steady company for several...
...operations of Argentina's FAMA airline, then returned to run the Argentine Postal Savings Bank. Named ambassador to the U.S. in 1948, he played a notable part in swinging a $125 million U.S. loan to Argentina. He also caused something of a feminine flutter among Washington's smart...