Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like just about every other ball fan in the U.S. the odds makers of Las Vegas looked ahead across the long summer this week and decided just how the major-league pennant races might wind up. The big surprise was that the Nevada smart money picked the Cincinnati Reds for fifth place in the National League, one of the most embarrassing ratings ever given a previous year's pennant winner. The pre-season odds...
Teddy & Eddie Sir: While watching Eddie McCormack and Ted Kennedy [March 23] drive by us (in separate cars) in the St. Patrick Day's Pa rade, I asked a local labor union president what the smart politicians were doing about the state Democratic primary. His terse re ply: "Leaving town." Boston SPENCER J. SCHEDLER Sir: In Massachusetts you can't see the forest for the family trees...
Surprisingly, the play-which contains some of the sleaziest writing done by Tennessee Williams since he became an important playwright-has emerged from its ordeal by camera, thanks principally to Writer-Director Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry}, as a fast, smart, squalid melodrama that offers its customers three of the year's top film performances...
LIVE IT UP! (Johnny Mathis; Columbia). Crooner Mathis, who seems to have laundered much of the teary quaver out of his voice, gives expert and exuberant treatment to some smart and fairly fresh patter-Ace in the Hole, On a Cold and Rainy...
...puberty, leaving him behind in "the country of childhood." (It happens that his mother bought him a $10 typewriter around the same time.) His first writing coup was of a sort to make his father apoplectic. Pen-named as a woman, the 14-year-old Tom won a $25 Smart Set contest on the subject "Can a Good Wife Be a Good Sport?" He went on to be published in a magazine called Weird Tales, with a story titled, The Vengeance of Nitocris. Opening sentence: "Hushed were the streets of many-peopled Thebes...