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...three: SHORTSTOP WALTER ("RABBIT") MARANVILLE (209 votes). During his durable 23-year career, Maranville had a batting average of only .258 and managed two clubs (Boston and Chicago) with no notable success, but furnished some of the slickest fielding, smartest base-running and stoutest do-or-die spirit ever seen on National League diamonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Three for Cooperstown | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...crisis could be dramatized in cold, simple arithmetic: the Christian Democrats, who govern Italy, hold only 44.4% of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies. Italy's Communist Party, the largest, strongest, richest and smartest this side of the Iron Curtain, controls 36.9%. With a switch of only 24 seats-4%-from the center to the Communist-controlled side (i.e., Communists and the Red Socialists of Pietro Nenni), the Red left would be the dominant bloc in Italian politics. And on the far right, with 4.9% of the Chamber's seats, sit the neo-Fascists-often willing helpers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Illness in the Family | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...sensitive approach to food This writer is the smartest For Clementine's not merely good She's both gourmet and artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Columnist at the Table | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

Whatever Oveta does, she can be depended upon to do it thoroughly. When a reporter asked Will Hobby if he didn't think his wife was just about the smartest member of the Cabinet, the governor gave a characteristic reply: " 'Course she is." he said. "But if she weren't, she'd have them thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lady in Command | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...marrying Radcliffe women, McGeorge Bundy, professor of Government, called it "an excellent idea. I married one of the Radcliffe teaching staff myself." And Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, recalled, "half a dozen girls used to marry their professors." He attributed this to the fact that "some of the smartest girls were also the most beautiful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 'Cliffe Girl: An Instructor's View | 4/18/1953 | See Source »

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