Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Welcker likened the present administration's economic planners to drunks who are on a spending spree. They mean well, he said, but their spending is not wise. "Planners don't know all the answers," Welcker declared...
...promoting business was not all Joe's idea. Last month in Chicago's Belmont Hotel, the champ had listened and nodded as two men unfolded the details of the deal. One of them was promotion-wise Arthur M. Wirtz, co-owner of Sonja Henie's Hollywood Ice Revue. The other was Grain Operator James D. Norris, son of the owner of the Detroit Red Wings. They offered Joe a third interest in a new promotional firm to be called the International Boxing Club. It sounded good to Joe. Last week, the three partners met again at Norris...
...following men contributed to the Winthrop exhibit: H.L.W. Brorby '50, W.Y.M. Chang '50, G. Groff-Smith '50, P. Hillman '48, S.D. Kranz '50, J.G. McNear '50, A. Taub '51, G.H. Whitney, Jr. '50, R.L. Wise '51, J.W. Woodard '48, H. Zubell...
Mistrusting Hollywood, he and the producers are considering doing an independent film version, directed by cinema-wise Elia Kazan (Gentleman's Agreement, Boomerang). Other Miller projects: two new plays, one a "pathetic comedy" about an Italian worker in Brooklyn's Red Hook section, and a novel set on the Brooklyn waterfront...
...newcomers, who called themselves "the new infusion," had more in common than names. They were all wealthy, civic-minded, business-wise; five of the seven were Princeton-educated (the other two had gone to Yale). All had started as printers' devils, clerks or cubs...