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...years of war have hurt China a lot, but have also taught China a lot. The most spectacular discovery, for a nation in which military leadership has classically been an affair of coin and cunning rather than martial skill, has been that China could turn out first-class officer talent...
...Chen Cheng is also a skillful soldier. The measure of his talent is that the Generalissimo chose him to defend the Gorges -which means defending Chungking, which means defending Chiang. Last summer, when Ichang fell, Chen Cheng was blamed by some for the bad strategy which lost that key city. He then gave up his comfortable job in Chungking as Chief of the Army's Political Training Department and went to the front, publicly vowing not to return until he had retaken Ichang...
...quarter-million-dollar transfer of tonsils and talent, M.C.A., hitherto prominent as an agency for popular bands and band leaders, will take over the contracts of and manage such savvy-artists as Elmer Davis, Ed Murrow, William L. Shirer, such announcers as Ted Husing, Paul Douglas, Del Sharbutt, such maestros as Andre Kostelanetz and Raymond Scott...
Preliminary investigations of the talent bureaus by the Anti-Trust Division of the Department of Justice are also believed to have inspired the two networks' scurry from under. Rumored next step to be taken by NBC and CBS towards placating antimonopolistic FCC: the sale of their transcription libraries...
Last week America's dwarfish No. 1 showman, Billy Rose, again earned his rank, solved the long-vexing problem of how to give shows for soldiers - at least during the outdoor season. His solution was a combination of top talent plus a revival of the old rolling medicine-show technique...