Word: talented
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Decorated by Italians of diluted talent or by conscientious U. S. beautifiers, the walls and domes of many a courthouse, library and State Capitol still witness the sad state of mural art during the late igth Century. Strongest and soundest murals of the period were done in 1876 by Henry Adams' friend John La Farge for Trinity Church in Boston, and later for Manhattan's Church of the Ascension. But La Farge worked in the European tradition, had little influence on his best successors...
...defeated because of poor performances in the field events. Publicized as the strongest group ever sent, this year's Oxford-Cambridge team proved unusually well-balanced. Relying on both team "Presidents" (captains), Alan Pennington (Oxford) and Godfrey Brown (Cambridge), for double wins, the Britishers had unbeatable talent on the track except in the hurdles. In the field they boasted a Turk who could shot-put 49 ft., a high-jumper who could clear 6 ft. 3 in., and Frederick Richard Webster, first Briton ever to pole-vault 13 ft., who got-his vaulting tips by corresponding with...
...lawyer and professor of law at Columbia (where Franklin Roosevelt attended his lectures), Mr. Reynolds was persuaded to go into banking by the elder George F. Baker, who made him First National's president in 1922. Humorous, levelheaded, liberal, in 20 years he has used his talent for public pleading only once, but then effectively, when he swayed U. S. bankers into a truce with the New Deal (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). Persistently modest about his second profession, he remarked on his retirement last winter: "There are four or five men in there who are better bankers than...
...were off in the Hearst empire of 26 newspapers, 13 magazines and assorted enterprises. The famed, New York American was dead, dropped like a cold potato. The queen-pin of his domain,* the paper that was called his journalistic "love child," on which he lavished money and affection and talent, was killed after a five-day conference...
Invented by Scotch shepherds, golf in the U.S. has been inherited by many Italian day laborers' sons, who caddied on the courses their fathers tended. Guldahl is the first ex-caddie of Norwegian descent to develop top-flight golfing talent. Reared in Texas, Guldahl's talents in the past have sometimes seemed misplaced. After his tragic putt in 1933 which, if it had gone into the cup, would have made him a national celebrity, he speedily lost prestige. In 1935 he failed even to make a living out of golf, took to selling automobiles and working...