Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Oct. 9). Last week he thought he had found it. Dipping lightly into the odd $168,000,000 in his pockets, Tycoon Field (publisher of New York's PM, Chicago's Sun, syndicated Sunday weekly Parade, owner of Cincinnati's radio station WSAI) bought smart Simon and Schuster, one of the top merchandisers in the book business, and Pocket Books, Inc., which was 49% owned by Simon and Schuster officials. Publisher Field kept the purchase price...
...Premier William John Patterson, Liberal, who did not know his Lenin, attacked the C.C.F. for confusing "socialism and cooperation by making them appear synonymous." Then he and his fellow Liberals voted with the C.C.F. for the new bill. This was smart politics, for nowhere in Canada are cooperatives so popular and successful as in Saskatchewan, where 1,000 societies with 250,000 members own and operate their own businesses. Among the most unusual: Regina's Funeral Cooperative Association Ltd., organized July 1, 1943 to combat the high cost of dying...
Married. Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, 48, swank-loving, smart-alecking Conservative M.P., who in 1938 claimed half of his estranged wife's $400,000 income, later divorced her for adultery, was blasted for "beachcombing in Honolulu" during the blitz as guest of Doris Duke Cromwell; and Angela Williams, daughter of a British Naval Commander; in London...
Lady Mendl, eightyish, ageless, international smart-setter, predicted great things for her wartime home, Hollywood. Said she: "Hollywood is the new kingdom of youth and ambition. . . . This is the new focal point of civilization. .. . Among the kings and queens of the future, the stars of Hollywood will be prominently enthroned...
...Marty Mann, 39, a tall, smart-looking blonde who last week became executive director of the newly established National Committee for Education on Alcoholism, with offices in Manhattan's Academy of Medicine. The daughter of an executive of Marshall Field's Chicago department store, she married a drunkard and became one herself. Her husband, meanwhile, got over it. In 1939, after psychiatrists had failed to cure her, she became the first woman member of Alcoholics Anonymous. She still goes to parties where drinks are served, but her drink is a horse's neck (ginger ale with lemon...