Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play even has scattered bright spots of its own: Playwright Appell shows a knack for brightly stenciling familiar characters and situations, and if his dialogue seldom has wit, it often has sass. Thanks to a good cast, Lullaby coaxes a certain amount of routine amusement, first out of Mama's-Boy Meets Girl, then out of depicting home and mother as more like oil and water. But to such standbys of comedy it brings no new insight and only limited verve. Hence it is forced into utter disregard for tone-one minute realistic comedy, the next shameless shenanigans...
Samuel Johnson was his good friend, and wrote an account of the Life of Mr. Savage in 1744. Savage provided Johnson with his best study of character--a great arrogant pride, amasing personal charm, and yet both equalized by a knack of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. When George II took the throne in 1727, Savage wrote a poem eulogizing him, but typically made the mistake of praising George I whom George II hated. This was the pattern for most of his mistakes, for diplomatically he was a blockhead. Pope seemed to fascinate him, and together they...
Browning's knack was discovered by accident. He was practicing flips and somersaults under the admiring eye of Illinois Gymnastics Coach Charley Pond recently when both coach and pupil were struck with the same idea: Browning was clearing prodigious heights. They set up a standard high-jump crossbar, and Browning cleared 6 ft. 6 in., a good height for any high jumper. A bit later, he tumbled himself over the 7-ft. mark. His technique: a running, springing aerial twist into a backward handspring, which supplies momentum for a final backward double somersault up & over the bar. Some sportswriters...
...Benchley got a job as a bookkeeper in San Diego's Zoological Garden in 1925, she had nothing in mind but making a little money. She was 42, had been a housewife for 20 years, and had virtually no formal training. She liked animals, had energy and a knack for organization, and soon found herself all but running the zoo -then a struggling institution with only eleven overworked employees. In 1927 she was made director in name as well as in fact. Last week, retired after 26 years, grey-haired, 71-year-old Belle Benchley found herself a leading...
...University officials and Education School professors say it would be impossible to find a man better suited to be dean. Keppel combines all the story--book qualities that an ideal executive must have: brilliance, youth, original ideas, an engaging personality, and a knack for getting things done quickly. Last spring, when he decided his faculty lacked men who were experienced in practical education administration, he flew to Chicago, and offered the city's superintendent of schools a professorship. Herold C. Hunt, one of the nation's best known and most successful educators, turned down a contract renewal and took...