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...shock waves, in Hollywood fashion, were set in motion by the press boss of 20th Century-Fox, Marilyn's studio. Fast-talking Harry Brand, an ex-newsman with a reputation as one of the smartest press-agents in Hollywood, had carefully prepared for the event. At the time of the marriage he had foresightedly extracted a promise from Marilyn that, if the marriage broke up, she would tell him first. Last week, when she phoned and sobbed out the news. Brand was ready. Quickly, he mobilized his troops. He called in five assistants while he dashed off a short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out at Home | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

Lawyer son of a famous Indian fighter who lived to be 99, Vargas first rode out of Rio Grande do Sul in 1930 at the head of a gaucho army and seized the presidency. In power. Vargas rapidly won a name as the smartest politician in South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Goodbye to a Gaucho | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...therefore, would be a violation of the state police power-and the Supreme Court did not even mention that. Last week, as Louisiana's house and senate passed bills dropping public-school segregation into the police-power category, one legislator sized up the sleazy plan for all: "The smartest in Dixie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Smartest in Dixie | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...nightclubs. Dave had plenty of money (and, for that matter, Roy was drawing down $20,000 a year from a private law partnership, in addition to his salary). More important to their palship, Dave wanted to be a Communist investigator, and he regarded Roy as just about the smartest man he ever knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Self-Inflated Target | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...varsity meet the sophomore-laden Eli team marched through four lightweight matches without defeat. Captain Chick Chandler in the 157 pound class momentarily rallied the varsity by trouncing Ed Abdelnoor, 8 to 2. And 167 pound Dick Hook immediately followed by beating Victor David, 8 ot 1, in his smartest match of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Wrestling Team Scores Twentieth H-Y Victory, 15-9 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

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