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...twice married and twice divorced, Griffis is a tall, shrewd and amiable investment banker who made enough of a fortune, before getting into statecraft, to spend his winters aboard his yacht off Florida. At one time he controlled Madison Square Garden and ran Paramount Pictures, was also one of the Democratic Party's most generous campaign contributors...
Family Reunion, by Ogden Nash. A choice helping from Nash's whole output of shrewd, zany verse on the domestic trials and joys of white-collar citizens (TIME...
...Time . . ." A British officer who has seen much of the U.S. fighting-man in Korea last week gave this shrewd, balanced appraisal...
Several of the exhibits were portraits of shrewd Patron Vollard himself, who was a willing model for his many artist friends. Hearing that Renoir had always wanted to paint a bullfighter, Vollard had a gold-embroidered toreador suit made to his own measure, turned up at Renoir's studio in costume. He even offered to shave off his beard, but Renoir said that would be unnecessary: "You don't suppose you would be taken for a real torero, if you did? All I ask of you is not to go to sleep while you are sitting...
...stands for the property on which Littauer was built. Lincoln Square is now the center of all fire operations in Cambridge; its station contains the city's main fire switchboard. Littauer is, of course, the headquarters of the School of Public Administration. Cooperation paid off then. And two shrewd traders were bound to learn the lesson...