Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wise Child. In Springfield, Mass., Mrs. Rose Laskowski's children studied the news picture of a bride, spotted Mamma. Papa had her arrested for bigamy at honeymoon...
...uneasy but by no means passive spot between the two, the scene was set for what might have been a catastrophic three-cornered battle. Murray took the risk of wading in. By last week he had apparently exploited labor's advantage to the full-but he had been wise enough not to push...
Anita ("The Face") Colby, ex-Cover Girl No. 1, was named "the most beautiful woman in America." Picker: publicity-wise Harry Conover, Manhattan model-peddler. Also named: 1) Cinemactress Maureen O'Hara, "the perfect-feature girl;" 2) Ingrid Bergman (who acts for David Selznick, who employs Miss Colby as adviser), "the prettiest woman on the screen...
Editor Green broke in on Variety as an 18-year-old collegian. Today, like all the muggs, he lives partly in a nostalgic past, haunted by Silverman's wise-guy gentleness, his scoops, his Hispano-Suizas. Variety labors to be in the know about the future of television and 16-mm.-film theaters, so that if radio or the movies go the way of vaudeville, it will still be the journalistic handmaiden of entertainment...
...zloty, but recently a dollar would bring as much as 600 zlotys in Stettin. Greece's official value of about 500 drachmas to the dollar is far below the black-market price, which was steadily rising. China's currency is so wildly erratic that no wise trader will accept...