Word: smartest
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Forty of the nation's smartest teen-age youngsters whooped into Washington last week for a week of fun, sightseeing and a competition to choose the likeliest boy & girl scientists in the U.S. They were finalists in the third annual science talent search run by the news agency Science Service. They had tea in the White House with Eleanor Roosevelt before she went off to Puerto Rico. They chatted with Vice President Wallace, hobnobbed with eminent elder scientists, swarmed irreverently through the halls of Congress and the endless corridors of the Pentagon...
Broadway's No. 1 angel is urbane, likable, 52-year-old Howard Stix Cullman. By all the rules of the game, he also should be Broadway's No. 1 sucker. Far from it, he is just about the smartest picker in show business. Since last spring he has picked seven hits in a row; he owns from 7% to 20% of The Voice of the Turtle, Kiss and Tell, Othello, Lovers and Friends, A Connecticut Yankee, The Cherry Orchard and One Touch of Venus. He also owns 20% of Life With Father and 25% of Arsenic...
...smartest thing business can do is to leave the Renegotiation Act alone, unless business executives want to spend the rest of their lives on the Hill before investigating committees...
...took Europe 19 years to learn how to fight Napoleon. ... It took the Marines just three days to learn how to storm an atoll fortress and dig the Japs out. . . . We've got the toughest and smartest fighting men in this world. But as long as the war lasts some of them somewhere will be getting killed. We have got to acknowledge that or else we might as well stay home...
After 38 critical years on the sidelines, Variety, the smartest show-business paper in the U.S., last week went into show business itself. The celebrated weekly put on a weekly radio show for Philco (Blue Network, Sun., 6-7 p.m., E.W.T.). Just why the shrewd, slangy journal should break into radio was candidly explained by its grizzled, punchy editor, Abel ("Hiya, sonny boy!") Green: "For cash consideration, filthy lucre, publicity. For the durable function of bringing to the air what's good in all branches of show business-a sort of personality Crossley...