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...severest critic and as his best friend would see him. Then he must give his opinion on how his fellow candidates would do as 1) civil servants, 2) holiday companions. Each year, about 25 survivors are picked as third secretaries in the Foreign Service. Many are already adept in that ancient talent of British diplomacy: the ability to open one's mouth and move one's lips to emit words which give the illusion, but only the illusion, of a reply...
...releases. On other occasions, too, he has displayed unsuspected talents. When CBS was stuck for a commentator in its early telecasts of racing, Vanderbilt handled the first few shows capably. "I got a good notice from Crosby," he says. And during an early acquaintance with Ernest Hemingway, he became adept at handling the tablecloth when Hemingway decided to play bullfight. Vanderbilt has achieved an enviable balance between not having enough to do to keep him interested, and having so much to do that it keeps him scrambling. And he has managed what James Branch Cabell points to as the secret...
...John managed 60 pastoral calls during the first month. They went to every meeting of every organization in the church community. They roused new interest among the teenagers of the congregation by assigning them small jobs to do-lighting candles, taking care of the bulletin board, ushering. John became adept at judging the size of the congregation by the sound of its singing and recognizing people by the sound of their voices at the church door...
...line (as did Army) and a winged T, the Injuns unwrapped a highly efficient sophomore quarterback named Jim Miller, whose flat, hard throws had Army's weaker left side backers-up doing futile somersaults. Miller, supposedly the understudy of more experienced Gene Howard and Dick Brown, was certainly less adept at ball-handling but a far better passer than either. Brown and Howard contributed little more than a pair of 50-yard punts...
...buoyant spirit of Gene Kelly. In 1949's On the Town, in which he served as co-director and star, Kelly staked his claim as the most original talent in Hollywood musicomedy; the new picture makes his claim secure. As a dance designer-performer, he is equally adept in Hollywood's most ambitious ballet and in a delightfully informal number setting I Got Rhythm into the form of an English lesson for an adoring clump of French children...