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...during his tenure at Amherst that Jordan realized the value of hiring enthusiastic assistants. His present staff includes three extremely able men, plus a first-class trainer, and his backfield coach is considered one of the smartest assistants in the country...
...G.O.P. candidates all over the U.S. than all other Senators combined, the issue of Reds in Government had waned (except in Joe McCarthy's home state), and some Republicans were nervously wondering whether it might yet boomerang. Rising prices and taxes bothered most people, but not even the smartest politicians could make out whom the voters blamed. The Republicans were left with the traditional war cry of opposition: "Throw the rascals out." The Democrats, pointing to high farm prices, wages & profits, warned against changing horses, and (as they have for 18 years) ran against Herbert Hoover...
...Government subsidies ("I prefer to earn my own money"), and 2) has fought long & hard against the conferences by which most U.S. shippers' rates are set. His most effective weapon to get business is to undercut the conference rates. Said one conference shipper: "He's the smartest damn guy in the whole business. You can hardly get a lawyer to go against him, because he's usually right...
...case of atomic warfare with Russia (which will come just as soon as Russia has a good stock of atom bombs), Washington, D.C. will be the safest place in this country . . . Stalin is no fool; with the one exception of Winston Churchill, he is the smartest man in the world today. He knows he cannot trust his closest associates in the Kremlin, but that he can depend on plenty of assistance from [Washington...
...Meegeren was the 20th Century's most ambitious forger, and for a time its most successful. In ten years at his odd calling, he had fooled some of Europe's smartest experts and made close to $3,000,000 by painting and then "discovering" half a dozen "Vermeers" and a couple of "Pieter de Hoochs" besides. When he was convicted three years ago (TIME, Nov. 24, 1947), Van Meegeren told a reporter that he was "sure about one thing: if I die in jail they will just forget all about it. My paintings will become original Vermeers once...