Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them, a kind of homespun hippie who can parry with Stokely Carmichael or trade one-liners with Jack E. Leonard. Though the caliber of guests only occasionally rises to a Bob Hope, it is also true that Douglas' program has become a profitable showcase for new talent. The producers boast that Comic Bill Cosby got his first national TV break on the show and that Barbra Streisand did her bit there a year before Funny Girl. A good deal of the show time, however, is devoted to warmed-over smorgasbord: Arthur Godfrey demonstrates his recipe for beans de luxe...
...TIME is one of the few magazines that acknowledge the extraordinary talent that the Beatles have and now produce on records. Long after the Monkees and the Jefferson Airplane have faded away, the Beatles will still be strong...
Brothers, and today he is surfacing as the most versatile talent to emerge from a singing group since the Rhythm Boys lost Bing Crosby. In addition to a craftsmanlike acting talent, Ames has a voice that has made him a top nightclub draw (he is now at the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel) and an RCA Victor balladeer who has crashed the bestseller charts twice already this year. He has two TV specials coming up the same week next month-as host of NBC's high-rating annual Ice Follies show and as Ferrovius...
...corporations have often found it difficult to recruit top foreign talent for their overseas executive suites. Lately, however, laboring for the Yankee dollar has begun to lose its stigma. Last week, in one of the year's more remarkable personnel coups. International Business Machines landed the Earl of Cromer, former governor of the Bank of England, as chairman of its subsidiary IBM United Kingdom holdings...
Legerdemain of this sort is the special talent of 29-year-old Joyce Carol Oates. As she demonstrated in an earlier novel (With Shuddering Fall) and two volumes of short stories (By the North Gate, Upon the Sweeping Flood), she is a literary oddity. An upstate New York Yankee, she creates countrified characters who burn with the kind of short-fused violence and curious pride of privacy that have always been the exclusive hallmark of writers from the South...