Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that watches, cigarette packs and fountain pens found in the streets were probably booby traps dropped by Israeli planes. Only one of the city's three television stations was broadcasting, and it had been forbidden to carry such "imperialist" programs as Gunsmoke, had to make do with local talent and thrillers from Peking, including Women Locomotive Drivers in China...
...eleventh-generation descendant of a Mayflower immigrant, he is every inch the patrician who enjoys academic ceremony. At the same time, says one friend, Brewster "holds a fundamental irreverence for anything stuffy, too old or established" -and delights close friends at dinner parties with his self-depreciating humor and talent for mimicry. Actually a loner who carefully guards his deepest feelings, Brewster is also gregarious enough to pre-empt center stage at bourbon-and-bull sessions with Yale's faculty and students. An ear-wearying public speaker whose official utterances are frequently pedantic and dull, Brewster shines wittily...
...Fresh Talent, Fresh Ideas. Even fond admirers of Griswold are now willing to concede that Yale during the postwar years did not always live up to its reputation, tended to tolerate aristocratic old-timers at the expense of first-rate professional scholarship. Convinced that Yale...
...Heineman, the pleasant, pensive chairman and chief executive of the Chicago & North Western Railway, has a talent for the unexpected. Such as making money on commuters: the C. & N.W., with a profit of $2,000,000 from its Chicago short-haul service last year, is one of the few U.S. railroads that earned money on that kind of traffic. Or accomplishing unlikely mergers: in a recent move that caught Wall Street by surprise, Heineman announced that for cash and stock exchanges totaling $367 million, the C. & N.W. was acquiring Essex Wire Corp. (annual sales: $375 million), a Fort Wayne...
...Manager Eddie Stanky, whose White Sox trail the first-place Detroit Tigers by only 1½ games. "If we stay healthy, we've got a good chance," says Manager Hank Bauer of the defending champion Baltimore Orioles. And Boston Red Sox Manager Dick Williams insists: "We have the talent. There's no telling what will happen...