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...Hitchcock, keeping her nearly motionless, plies her with one slow, cold, lambent close-up after another. Some of these close-ups function forcefully in the storytelling; but too many are as nonfunctional as her frequent changes of hairdo. It looks as if Hitchcock, one of the smartest directors of women in the business, had been required, in Valli's case, merely to glamorize a new Selznick star. Newcomer Jourdan does respectably by his limited chance-which is to look handsome and intense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jan. 12, 1948 | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Retiring captain Vince Moravec called O'Donnell "a wonderful choice" and Dick Harlow rated him "one of the smartest men I have ever coached and one of the best pass defenders in the country." The coach said, "I know he'll make a fine captain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: O'Donnell Leads '48 Football Team | 11/26/1947 | See Source »

...smartest gal to wear a thimble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 6, 1947 | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...Drink, No Smoke. Branch Rickey, the smartest man in baseball, had looked hard and waited long to find a Negro who would be his race's best foot forward, as well as a stout prop for a winning ball team. Rickey and his men scouted Robinson until they knew everything about him but what he dreamed at night. Jackie scored well on all counts. He did not smoke (his mother had asthma and cigaret fumes bothered her); he drank a quart of milk a day and didn't touch liquor; he rarely swore; he had a service record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookie of the Year | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...that the result of this separation ... of Church and State is "a generation of religious illiterates"-but you neglect to point out [that] these religious illiterates are the smartest youngsters we have ever produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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