Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this land, in prewar times the rich French colony of Indo-China, has been suffering, on a lesser scale, the ruinous kind of civil war which won China for Communism. The Mao Tse-tung of the Indo-Chinese is a frail, but enduring comrade, who looks like a shriveled wizard; his nom de guerre is Ho Chi Minh (or One Who Shines). Chiang Kai-shek has no counterpart in Indo-China. The initial brunt of the Red attack has been borne by French soldiers. Meanwhile, the job of rallying native anti-Communist forces falls mainly on the meaty shoulders...
Died. Andrew Ponzi, 46, flashy wizard of the pool tables, three-time world pocket billiard champion (1935, '40, '43); of a heart ailment; in Philadelphia. Born Andrew D'Alessandro, he earned the lasting nickname "Ponzi" after "Get Rich Quick" Charles Ponzi, the Boston swindler, by nervily taking all challenges, habitually winning his bets...
Jack of All Trades. Jones, born on a farm near Webb City, Mo., started at the bottom. At 21, he quit Vanderbilt University to take a $45-a-month job as "cashier, bookkeeper, janitor and meter repairman" for Doherty's Webb City & Carterville Gas Co. A self-taught wizard with figures, he moved up to auditor and treasurer of Doherty's electric company at Joplin, Mo. When he went to Manhattan that year for a company meeting, Jones's knowledge of budgeting so impressed Frank Frueauff, Doherty's partner, that Jones was made Frueauff...
...buses, he thought he knew just the man for the job: tall, tough Millionaire William D. Pawley, 53. Boss of Miami's bus system, Pawley had organized Cuba's first commercial airline and built most of its airfields. Many Cubans regard him as a combination financial wizard and philanthropist...
...droll characterization of Lucifer, a sort of feline Charles Laughton. By remembering that his tale takes place "once upon a time in a faraway land," Disney avoids the temptation of gagging it up with anachronisms or excessive cartoon acrobatics. With just the right wizard's brew of fancy and fun, sugar and spice, he makes an old, old story seem as innocently fresh as it must to the youngest moppet hearing it for the first time...