Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might care, there is a man down in Washington who has not forgotten that charity is a year-round affair. He tells us that if we vote for the right kind of men we can have a super-colossal balanced budget. And with our chrome-plated, atomic-age, whiz-bang budget safely balanced in ossified equilibrium, we can then enjoy the sweet fruits of peace, progress, and prosperity...
Jelly & Gee Whiz. Zinssers is not the only discerning voice that has been diverted in New York, once considered a reviewer's citadel impregnable to siege. Justin Gilbert of the Mirror has been under tacit order since 1956 to pull his punches, a mandate he finds painful to obey. Last August, after a mildly unfavorable Gilbert review of The Hunters, a story of jet bomber crews, 20th Century-Fox Vice President Charles Einfeld fired off a cable to Mirror Publisher Charles McCabe, who was vacationing in Rome. In it he expressed "shocked regret shabby dismissal of our very important...
...and/or reprisals from producers and exhibitors. The tone of a review in the trade papers bears a remarkable relationship to advertising volume. Among the daily Los Angeles press, only the loftily independent Times Reviewer Philip K. Scheuer bucks a tendency among movie reviewers to play the role of "gee whiz" movie fans rather than movie judges...
...after lunch, Hoover is far from having slowed his overall pace: he works seven days a week. Almost every night he has guests for dinner, which is preceded by two martinis (the only time he drinks), and he follows the meal with canasta, at which he is a whiz...
Even in the electronics industry, chock-full of whiz kids, Charles Bates Thornton stands out as a wonder. He was an Air Force colonel at 28, the planning director of Ford Motor Co. at 32, the operating boss of Hughes Aircraft at 35. Now-at 45-he heads one of the fastest-growing electronics makers: Beverly Hills' Litton Industries. In five years under Thornton, Litton's yearly sales have risen from $3,000,000 to $83 million, are expected to top $110 million in the twelve months ending next July. Last week "Tex" Thornton was ready to bite...