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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dwight Eisenhower, according to Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson, is a tough man across the bridge table: "Classic, sound, with occasional flashes of brilliance." Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson (Ike's sometime partner) also rated with Expert Culbertson as "the best player on the Supreme Court or any other." Army Chief of Staff General Omar Bradley was acknowledged "an outstanding strategist; he takes more chances than Eisenhower." Tops on Culbertson's list of Government players: Major General A. M. Gruenther, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...four of the pianists do the arranging. Each keeps in mind the special talents of the other three. Russian-born Vladimir ("Vee") Padwa, who filled a vacancy in the Quartet in 1942, is the trill expert; Garner likes to handle special tonal colors; Edson is famed for what the others call his "light delicate touch." Viennese Frank Mittler, who looks like a concert version of Actor Frank Fay, quips: "I do the 'dramatic pauses...
...tries, on a grade B budget (under $750,000). One of the last jobs done for RKO by Executive Producer Dore Schary before he joined MGM, it combines a neat story by Cornell Woolrich, competent playing by twelve-year-old Bobby Driscoll and four relatively unknown actors, and some expert camera work in the brownstone jungles of Manhattan's East Side tenements. Smoothly mortised and joined by Director Ted Tetzlaff and Producer Frederic Ullman Jr., The Window emerges as a fast little thriller full of grade A qualities...
...Berkleys of Broadway. Expert hoofing and whirling by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (TIME, April...
Ever since psychiatrists have been used as expert witnesses by the Courts, there have been bitter struggles between the doctors of the prosecution and the doctors of the defense. These battles have tended to center on the very popular "insanity plea." There is no legal definition of insanity, and since each case is different, the psychiatrists cannot apply any hard and fast rules. The experts can only give their usually conflicting opinions, and the Court must come to final decision...