Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been back on the domestic scene, writing the story of U.S. politics, labor-management problems, the economy. A few of his other cover subjects : John L. Lewis, Tom Dewey, Robert Taft, Dean Acheson, Eugene Dennis, Richard Mellon. A fine craftsman and a thoroughly professional journalist, he has a special talent for sizing up his man in his lead paragraph. His cover story on former Speaker of the House Joe Martin (TIME, Nov. 18, 1946) began: "About all that little Joe ever did was brush the flies off the horses' big rumps while his old man did the shoeing. Little...
...Hasty Pudding Show will start rounding up talent this afternoon for its annual, "Heart of Gold," the first production to go on the road since 1947. Casting, which is open to all undergraduates, begins at 2 p.m. in the club house at 12 Holyoke Street. Troopers of all kinds are needed...
Idler's Workshop group will give a one-actor entitled "The Faraway Princess" this afternoon in Agassiz Theater. The production gives Idler candidates a chance to show their talent...
...made money on such pictures as Henry V, he had attempted to increase his annual output of pictures from 25 to 60. Directors like Sydney Box (The Seventh Veil), who had been turning out five good films a year, were told to make 20. There was not enough moviemaking talent for all the pictures and the result was a dreary parade of box-office flops which cut into the profits of Rank's theaters, the moneymaking end of his business...
Every now & then-in shots of stampeding horses and the handling of human beings against the great outdoors-there are fleeting reminders of Ford's best films. But mostly, Yellow Ribbon is a sad waste of talent and Technicolor...