Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...races and 17 of his horses have won more than $100,000 in a single year. Before he signed on with the Phippses last November, Eddie worked mostly as a "public" trainer for as many as 14 owners at the same time, earned a reputation for spotting hidden talent in horses that other trainers had given up on. In 1963, he invested $125,000 of Gedney Farm's money in a promising colt named Gun Boat-plus a so-so horse named Gun Bow that was thrown in to sweeten the deal. Gun Boat broke...
...picture is a hit, Streisand may finally become assured of her talent. To the Brooklyn girl who didn't see Manhattan until she was 14, the "something" she has always wanted is not to be simply a smash on the West End or Broadway. "To me, being really famous," she says, "is being a movie star...
Half the Ark. Lord Sherfield has a reputation for smoothing out arguments, whether between nations, companies, or factions within companies. That talent is exactly what Hill, Samuel seems to need. Despite its size and profitability, the company has been split by internal dissension. The trouble began almost as soon as Hill, Samuel was formed 16 months ago by the merger of two distinguished but disparate banking firms: blueblood M. Samuel & Co., and new-blood Philip Hill, Higginson, Erlangers...
...station back to Viscount Bearsted's grandfather, the first Lord Bearsted, who founded the British half of Royal Dutch Shell. A conservative partnership, Samuel relied heavily on its money to make money, stuck to gilt-edged investments. Philip Hill, whose directors held their salaried jobs by right of talent alone, was brash, inventive and daring. With Philip Hill's top man, a rugged ex-lieutenant colonel of the Welsh Guards named Kenneth Alexander Keith, 49, as deputy chairman and chief executive of the com bine, the Hill team pushed ahead with deals that offended the traditional...
...admits that this ideal would require new talent as well as new style, but Reston maintains that the talent has only to be sought out. There are many astute political commentators in the U.S. who never reach the public because they never write for newspapers. But the specialized knowledge and experience of these people could be as useful to the general public as to the colleagues who are now their only audience. As an example, Reston cites John Kenneth Galbraith, who has written a number of books on his experience as ambassador to India, but who failed to catch...