Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that France's Chief of State is no stooge of Adolf Hitler, of Pierre Laval, or of anybody else. Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain is old, crotchety, painstaking, slow. He is also honorable, patriotic and, when he takes the advice of a few trusted friends, often a clever political tactician. Last week his political tactics seemed about to get France into big, bad trouble with her conquerors...
...mystery story and a case history in the perilous science of evidence. Wellington doubts that the crone had an enchanted broomstick. He thinks she was twins. The Lord Mayor and the twelve good men & true were "fuddled, deceived, duped, gulled, hoodwinked and lamentably humbugged by a pack of clever gypsies...
Edward Francis McGrady looks like a clever negotiator and is one. He can smell labor trouble a mile away, can bring together bitterly opposed and uncompromising elements of labor and management and get them to compromise. Last week War Secretary Henry Lewis Stimson snapped up a suggestion from President Roosevelt, enlisted McGrady in his drive against defense strikes. Tired of waiting for President Roosevelt to elevate him from "little cabinet" status to Labor Secretary, McGrady had gone to work in 1937 for Radio Corp. of America, as vice president in charge of labor relations at $25,000 a year...
...added to the facilities of Franco. It is operated by Hans Thorner, who in recent winters has conducted a ski school at Pinkham Notch. Skiers will be in forested to know that Ted Hunter, former Dartmouth and Olympic team skier who is now a student of architecture, furnished the clever plans to transform of a large house into a pleasing replies of Swiss chalet with a huge fireplace, bedroom balconies, and other typical Alpine Features. Cannon Mountain skiers can run right into the Thorner House yard by way of the Coppormine or Tucker Brook ski trails...
Second feature, "One Night in the Tropics," has only two excuses for being produced. One of these, Jerome Kern's new numbers, is a pretty poor excuse. Comedy team Abbot and Costello, however, offer a few bright spots in an otherwise dull picture. Just as clever but not nearly so frank as in Gypsy Rose Lee's World Fair show, the two funsters show good Hollywood possibilities. The program as a whole, though, is a fair side order and a poor main dish...