Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called Case, Vice President Richard Nixon, National Chairman Leonard Hall, top New Jersey politicians and, most important, Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, an oldfashioned, free-style orator and chairman of the G.O.P. senatorial campaign committee. After lunch, McCarthy-Backer Dirksen, who is beginning to be known around Washington as "the Wizard of Ooze," said he would campaign for Case this fall. Two days later, at his weekly press conference, the President gave Case solid endorsement...
...Financial Genius Murchison can build the Trans-Canada pipeline for $3,000,000, then he must also be an engineering wizard in his spare time...
...Crystal by Godfrey Smith (Putnam; $3.50) is a brightly written, sprightly little tour de force that is all the more remarkable from a 23-year-old writing his first novel. It is about two young Englishmen involved in London high jinks and international low life. Graham Several, a financial wizard, is the crystal. Roger Meredith, a civil servant, is assigned by the Foreign Office to find the flaw. If there is no flaw in Several's loyalty, he is to be sent abroad on a vital secret mission. Meredith's search leads through the brilliant, overlapping aristocratic, political...
George Abbott, co-author and co-director of Pajama Game, is the theater's Wizard of Odds: chances are that any show he brings to Broadway will be a hit. He started out as an odds-on favorite when he directed one of his first shows, Broadway, in 1926. Through the years he added such winners as Three Men on a Horse, Boy Meets Girl, Brother Rat, Room Service, Pal Joey, Where's Charley, Call Me Madam, Wonderful Town, Me and Juliet...
CHILDREN: NBC's Mr. Wizard, as "a captivating example of how education can be made progressive without the loss of fundamentals...