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Test Matches. Cooke makes no attempt to be a political oracle, is not regarded as such in Britain. Ordinarily he avoids political predictions, sticks to interpreting what has happened, and, in doing so, usually leans toward the Administration line. But his shrewd wit can often knock an overblown issue down to its true perspective. When other correspondents wrote of a 'Rising tide" of anti-British sentiment in 1949, Cooke observed: "Senator Kem of Missouri . . . has never constituted a rising tide...
...This shrewd policy, enabling them to strike while the ticket is hot, points up the arrival of Cy Feuer, 40, and Ernest H. Martin, 31, in the first rank of theatrical producers. Feuer, who once headed a movie studio's music department, and Martin, a onetime radio executive, have now produced two shows, and both turned out to be hits. They launched their partnership by starring Ray Bolger in 1948's Where's Charley? (792 performances), which is currently enjoying a profitable return engagement...
...Storm Warning skillfully exploits this situation both as exciting melodrama and as a frontal assault on the KKK. Shrewd Producer Jerry Wald also manages to make the picture inoffensive, and even palatable, to most Southern moviegoers. To do so, he passes up chances to give authentic flavor to the movie's locale. Though the town is identified as Southern and looks realistically lived in, none of its citizens speaks with a Southern accent, and nothing about the appearance and customs of the town or its inhabitants sets them apart from California or the Middle West...
...Adams Truslow, retiring head of the New York Curb Exchange (see BUSINESS). Truslow's assignment: to provide expert financial advice and get the Point Four ball rolling in Brazil. Though Miller is sure to hear Brazilian gripes against U.S. price lids on coffee, Getulio Vargas is one statesman shrewd enough to grasp the equality-of-sacrifice idea that the U.S. hopes to get over to its Latin American neighbors...
Died. Sir Charles Blake Cochran, 78, England's leading showman ("The British Barnum"); of injuries suffered in scalding bath water, which he was too crippled by arthritis to turn off; in London. Shrewd "C.B." started out selling a quack ointment in the U.S., wound up selling Britain's top stars (Noel Coward, Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence) to transatlantic theatergoers. Specializing in both beauty ("Mr. Cochran's Young Ladies") and beasts (he introduced rodeo to a somewhat startled England), he promoted anything he considered a good show ("I would rather see a good juggler than a bad Hamlet...