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Bennie Akillian rounds out the outfield. He has proven himself fast, strong at bat, and one of the cleverest base runners on the team...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Pitching Poses Problem to McInnis, But Hitting, Fielding Balance Nine | 4/17/1951 | See Source »

Ronnie Graham is featured with Miss Gingold. There is something a little unearthly about the way he rolls and pops his eyes, but the fact is he's one of the cleverest comedians around. His humor leans toward the macabre, a fact that is quite refreshing in itself. The young man's monologue as a marijuana-smoking bop musician is fast and witty...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Playgoer | 3/17/1951 | See Source »

...Thirteen Clocks is James Thurber's fairy tale of how Prince Zorn, with the help of a mysterious character named Golux, brought time to life, Saralinda to wife, and the Duke to a hideous hereafter. Like all good fairy tales-and The Thirteen Clocks is one of the cleverest that any modern writer has been able to tell-Thurber's story may mean only what it says; it may also mean a good deal more that the author has characteristically made no attempt to spell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Please Yourself | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Rupert is undoubtedly the cleverest squirrel in captivity; unfortunately the movie is not good Durante humor. The Great Proboscis, forced to share top billing with the damn squirrel, has been given only a few really funny lines and he never goes into one of the long stories which are his specialty. Durante does, however, perform at the piano a couple of times...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/19/1950 | See Source »

...portside list of his Fair Deal. This time the President lacked a keynote as succinct as his "worst Congress in history" battle cry of 1948; Harold Stassen last week tried to give the Republicans as simple a credo to hurl back. "President Truman," said Stassen, "is the cleverest politician . . . and . . . the worst President ever to occupy the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Politician | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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