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...Most smarties know very few women. It is not smart to know women undergraduates, and it is unheard of to have a girlfriend, except in London. The very smartest, of course, know no women...
Wald and Krasna were already bubbling with plans and projects. With Hughes's approval, they were going to start a profit-sharing system for top-rank stars, writers and producers, boasted that they would assemble "under one roof, the smartest people since the Greeks." They planned to hire a corps of the nation's top newsmen to scour the world for original story material. Their films would cover the whole scale from social drama (Country Club, a study of Midwest manners & morals) to ribald comedy (Mother Knows Best, a collection of "clean-dirty stories" with Mae West...
...missing Capp sequence concerned one Happy Vermin, the self-described "world's smartest cartoonist," who had hired Li'l Abner to draw Vermin's comic strip in a dimly lighted closet. Instead of using Vermin's tired characters, Li'l Abner had inventively peopled the strip with hillbillies. Cried bighearted Vermin to his slaving assistant: "I'm proud of having created these [hillbilly] characters!! They'll make millions for me!! And if they do-I'll get you a new light bulb...
...KMAG's acting commander. Wright quickly explained the situation. "Fluid but hopeful" was the way he summed it up. Korean officers who entered the room were more pessimistic. Tall, round-faced Colonel Kim Pak II, ex-Japanese army captain, now generally accredited the Korean army's smartest staffman, shook hands with me warmly, but his usual cheerful manner had given way to worried tenseness. "Not very good . . . not very good...
...Woodruff's smartest moves was his policy of supplying U.S. soldiers anywhere in the world with nickel Cokes, no matter how much money the company lost in the process. The Coke bottling plants which moved along with the invading U.S. armies and brought the sight and taste of Coke to millions of people who had never heard of it before were actually the biggest impetus of Coca-Cola's present international boom...