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Inside the bones of a disciplined character, Dibelius has circulating a lively and urbane wit, a shrewd judgment of character, and a sense of realism that generally gets the better of his Prussian stubbornness. He gives his young pastors one cardinal maxim: "You must love men as they are, and not wait until they change into what you want them to be." But, as a man who has used the same tailor in Berlin's Leipziger Strasse for the last 50 years, he shows spurts of impatience with people whose habits clash with his. When a clergyman once pulled...
...Shrewd old Henry J. Kaiser and his son Edgar never put much of their own fortune into Kaiser Frazer Corp., their automobile manufacturing company which Edgar runs. Kaiser-Frazer lost some $52 million during its seven years of existence, and is $48.4 million in hock to the RFC. Old Henry put most of the family's millions into the highly profitable Kaiser Steel, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical and Permanente Cement companies, controlled by his personal holding company, the Henry J. Kaiser...
This first triumph was marked by three characteristics which have guided Rosalind Russell's theatrical career ever since. She has 1) bubbling confidence, 2) boundless energy, and 3) a shrewd sense of what is best for Rosalind Russell. Last week in Manhattan, she was again exhibiting all three as the star of Wonderful Town, the biggest hit of the Broadway season. Though she can neither sing nor dance, Ros has confidently and energetically sung & danced her way into the most enthusiastic rave reviews in recent memory. The Times's Brooks Atkinson, who declared that Rosalind "radiates the genuine...
...Wave at a WAC, starring Rosalind Russell. What time she has left over from performing in Wonderful Town, she spends making speeches, shopping and going to parties, attending civic luncheons, visiting hospitals. With a twinkle in her eye, she faces the future with bubbling confidence, boundless energy, and that shrewd sense of what is best for Rosalind Russell...
...nose at a mechanized world. England Your England is an impressionistic survey of Orwell's native land, in which he uses such unconventional criteria as the difference between the German's strutting goose step and the English parade step ("merely a formalised walk") to score some shrewd points about the strength of democracy...