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...European plan for a President to remain aloof, letting the Premier do the work, and to make only the stuffiest State visits abroad, but when "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman" Dr. Eduard Benes was elected President of Czechoslovakia (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935) everyone knew his way of doing things would be more on the American plan. Last week Dr. & Mrs. Benes arrived at Belgrade to face not the usual assemblage of many Serbian loafers rounded up by police and given a few coppers to cheer, but a mighty ovation such as President Roosevelt got in South America...
...Franklin. Roosevelt has the smartest political brain in the U. S., there is no doubt Manuel Quezon has the smartest political brain in the Philippines. Last week Señor Quezon's brain was visiting the U. S., working full speed while its owner was busy in Washington with the Interdepartmental Committee on Philippine affairs. For Mr. Quezon was putting a very delicate case to Assistant Secretary of State Francis B. Sayre, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, Brigadier General Creed F. Cox, Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, Paul...
...almost identical telegrams slapped King Carol in the face by telling the Royal Rumanian Government officially that the envoys of Germany and Italy had attended in their private capacity "the funeral of the two heroes" and that no ground for asking their recall existed. Friends of Mme Lupescu, "Smartest Woman in the Balkans," were inclined to admit that last week she had "perhaps overreached herself...
...smartest comedy since "Theodora Goes Wild," Universal's "Three Smart Girls" is a titillating tale of youthful love, parental love, and middle-age love. Starring a pleasant-looking, dimpled girl of fourteen, the picture moves swiftly and grandly to a fairy tale climax. Deanns Durbin is the most natural, unaffected child star that any Hollywood studio has turned out in several years. Her acting must satisfy even the very critical, although her singing occasionally lacks force...
...instinctively to human guidance and are good at the more mechanical forms of learning, but frequently behave in ways which do not redound to their own benefit. "Cows," she continued, "catch on to things quicker, remember better. And strangely enough the cows that give the most milk are the smartest of all cows. But polo ponies make the same mistakes that draft horses do. And sheep, despite their timidity, can be taught tricks, such as taking a handkerchief out of your pocket, rolling a barrel, and shaking hands, just as easily as a horse...