Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birdie's success is proof enough that a good manager can be the making of good players. Says Outfielder-turned-PitcherHal Jeff coat: "Birdie isn't a manager at all, if you want to know the truth. He's a teacher. He has a big knack of showing a ballplayer the results of effort and ability. Instead of saying two and two is four, he gives a player a problem and lets him figure it out. That way it's lasting. It's often said that the dumbest thing you can do in baseball...
Artist Boris Artzybasheff has a cool, ex-machine gunner's eye that can ruffle even the armor of a battleship, and has. With a knack for spotting an ogle where an I-beam ought to be, Artzy has been doing covers for TIME since 1941, created a pistol-packing battleship as background for Japanese Admiral Nagano, a school of sea-monster telescopes for Admiral Doenitz, a Veto-Bug for Gromyko. A special euphoria overtakes Artzy when the humans depart, leaving the machines alone with their fears, grimaces, ulcers and unique sex-appeal. Among Artzy's memorable anthropomorphic revelations...
...Association of the United States Army medal to Eugene W. Urban '57 for the best all-around record in military science; the Air Force Association silver medal to Gayle B. Wilhelm '57 for outstanding abilities; and the Reserve Officers Association of the United States Navy medal to Wallson G. Knack '57 for highest aval aptitude...
...manhood are told by a nameless narrator who is serving as a seaman aboard tramp freighters. These show traces of the fogbound, soul-bedeviled yarns that Eugene O'Neill spun in his early one-acters. But what Iowa-born Author Kentfield brings to his best stories, beyond the knack for telling them well, is a front-porch vision of small-town life, talk, fears and dreams as authentic as the creak of the rocker that serves as the observation post...
...Edwin Markham Elementary School in the Portland, Ore. school district began to realize that there was something special about shy, quiet Horace Bixby. Because of the Depression, "Bix" had never finished college. But he had an obvious talent for science and mechanics-and an even more important knack for getting along with children. He brought them birds and fish to study and care for. He built them an incubator, a model cloud chamber...