Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Joe was his friend, lean, long-nosed Harry Bridges, there to negotiate on behalf of his own West Coast longshoremen. Smart, articulate Mr. Bridges, who denounced "the capitalist war" until Russia was attacked in 1941, expected no trouble. The operators, he was sure, would give him $1.38 an hour, up from $1.15. So Harry helped Joe, pouncing like a ferret at the operators when he saw an opening...
Princess Elizabeth was undergoing alterations. The puffs and frills of girlhood were giving way to simpler, more sophisticated (and more slimming) styles; and Designer Norman Hartnell-still mama's dressmaker-was giving way to Molyneux, the very smart Duchess of Kent's stylist...
...organization in the South-which for decades has been in the hands of Ohio Republicans. He stands quietly but determinedly between Brickerites on the not-so-far right of him and Stassenites on the not-so-far left of him. That is a fine position for a smart operator who might want to choose the 1948 presidential candidate-or be the candidate himself...
Tito, after his fashion, had been reciprocating. Last week a wave of political arrests in Yugoslavia rounded up people suspected of being too friendly with the Americans and British. Reports came from Belgrade that more reservists, in smart new Russian-type uniforms, were being called up. No Yugoslav dared be seen at a British or American information center...
...plugged one thing, Irium (patented name for sodium alkyl sulphate, a cleaning agent), picked the right man to help do it. The man: Bob Hope. Luckman spotted him in a Broadway musical, offered to sponsor him on the air if he would tone down his smart-alecky manner. Hope refused. But after he had flopped with another sponsor, he meekly went back to see Luckman. Now Hope is signed to a ten-year Pepsodent contract at $20,000 a week (Hope's net after paying off the rest of the show: about...