Word: strategists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were certainly unexpected faces in several of the leading roles. Tetsu Katayama, the new Socialist Premier, is the Presbyterian grandson of a Shinto priest. Jiichiro Matsumoto, vice chairman of the Diet's upper house, is one of Japan's Eta* "untouchables." The new Cabinet Secretary, smart Socialist Strategist Suehiro Nishio, is a former steel worker...
...possessed "the greatest mind of the 14th Century" - did Bertie, as well as Dante, a disservice.* So have the oversimplified pictures of McCormick as a feudal lord of the manor, aping the English aristocrats he professes to detest; as a fascist menace; as "Col. McCosmic," the frustrated military strategist; as a crackpot Midas...
Spring football closed up shop for another year last Saturday afternoon amid the puddles and mud of the current rainy season. Full-scale games on Wednesday and Saturday climaxed a month of maneuvering, scrimmaging, and learning plays; and head coach and strategist Richard Cresson Harlow has nothing to do now but dream up ideas for next autumn's affairs...
...tactician (once the game has started), Durocher is unsurpassed; as a yearlong strategist, says Rickey, "he ain't." Durocher has an instinct for knowing just what his players can do in any situation. He yanks pitchers quicker than any other manager, and the results usually bear out his judgment. Pete Reiser stole home so often on Durocher's orders (seven times in 1946) that rival pitchers got the jitters every time he reached third base. Brooklyn scored more runs last season on squeeze bunts than any other club. Says Leo: "I play hunches . . . maybe other managers are afraid...
Said a U.S. War Department political strategist last week...