Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still suffering from the blue weekend? Has the prospect of returning to unfinished themes and uninterrupted classes filled you with an urge to do something different? Are you a budding newshound, a sophomore sage, or a financial whiz...
...Whiz Kid. Brown-eyed Barbara, by facility with word and thought, has won herself a reputation in several careers. Into her expensive education went samplings from a convent at her native Felixstowe, the Lycée Molière and the Sorbonne, Jugenheim and Oxford (Somerville College), where she took first-class honors in "Modern Greats."* She set her sights on opera, switched to lecturing (in a clear soprano) when she decided that she would never be a topflight singer...
Five years later he was on the New York Yankees, and hanging around the great Babe Ruth. Ruth was making $70,000 a year, and Durocher $4,500; Leo did his best to spend as if they were equals, and soon owed nearly everybody. He was a whiz in the field, but Ruth warned him: "You ain't stayin' in this league long, buddy. You gotta be able to hit to stick up here...
...Paris bureau correspondents would care to leave on a cross country assignment without Joseph ("Pepi") Martis, 36, a walking atlas of the crossroads, small towns, languages, dialects, customs & counter-customs from Lísbon to the Russian border. He is also a whiz at figuring out good camera angles...
...five, who are tall, speedy and accurate, had lost only once-to Oklahoma A. & M. Also among the nation's best: unbeaten Seton Hall (South Orange, N. J.), Alabama and West Virginia; firehouse Rhode Island State (won 11; lost 1); Oregon State (19-2). Illinois' Whiz Kids (TIME, Dec. 23), a flop at the season's start, were now in the running with Wisconsin and Michigan for the Big Nine title...