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...Assistant U. S. Secretary of State, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. No more dissimilar diplomats ever confronted each other. Mr. Horinouchi looks and acts like an animated cartoon of a Japanese statesman. Mr. Berle looks somewhat like a white mouse. But behind his pallid exterior he hides a talent for positive statement, a certainty that he knows what's what...
...chunk of Cincinnati's Street Railway System, wanted the complicated setup reorganized. Specializing in dry, dull, technical cases, Bob Taft worked on this complex chore off-&-on for eleven years, finished straightening it out in 1925. In this job, as in many another since, he displayed his talent for figures, often amazing his uncle, Mathematician Louis More, dean of University of Cincinnati's Graduate School, brother of the late Princeton Intellectual Paul Elmer More. Said Uncle Louis once: "Bob is the greatest man with figures I ever saw." (At twelve, Bob Taft first exhibited this talent: sitting down...
...freed 91 players, four of them brought up from the farms to Detroit's own roster, the rest secretly kept in "cold storage" on bush-league teams from Shreveport to Seattle. Detroit had prized this buried talent at something like $500,000. Beyond this paper loss, it had to shell out some $50,000 in adjustments. One team with which Detroit had a secret deal, Hot Springs in the Cotton States League, found itself with only one player after the great emancipation...
...interested in normal people," said bluff Dr. Lewis to a group of normal laymen. All great works in the world, said he, are the doings of neurotics, and if a psychiatrist wants to do his bit for civi lization, he should remember that men of talent must stay neurotic...
...historically minded laymen, who for every mad genius can cite a sweet-tempered family man like Einstein or Darwin, a sunny soul like Spinoza, an Olympian spirit like Goethe. They can complain, and do, that psychiatrists have never made clear the difference, if any, between scientific and artistic talent. Nor have the doctors explained whether a neurotic is: 1) a long-fingered person of "artistic temperament"; 2) a crank who looks under the bed every night or constantly washes his hands; or 3) a robust grappler with convention...