Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LINKLETTER'S HOLLYWOOD TALENT SCOUTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). CBS replaces the canceled Steve Lawrence Show with a revival (in color) of last summer's high-rated Hollywood Talent Scouts. Premiere...
...forgotten. A no-hit, no-field catcher, he bounced briefly around the majors reaching a sort of apex with the New York Highlanders in 1907, when he batted .182 and permitted the Washington Senators to steal 13 bases in one game. That was enough to convince Rickey that his talents were better suited to the front office. Over the next 50-odd years, with the St. Louis Browns, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates, he established himself as "the Mahatma," "the Brain," the brightest innovator, shrewdest trader and smartest judge of talent in the history...
...they changed their tune when the Cardinal organization produced Rickey's famed "Gashouse Gang" managed by Frankie Frisch and featuring Dizzy Dean, Ducky Medwick, Leo Durocher and Pepper Martin. With as many as 32 minor-league teams operating full blast, Rickey had a virtual monopoly on young talent. The Cardinals won the World Series in 1926-and over the next 16 years they went on to win five Na tional League pennants and three world championships...
...massive critical report. Heard read all 36 Ibs. of it, now uses it as a basis for measuring Vanderbilt's progress. He created a separate department of molecular biology and a division of bio-medical sciences, established a "distinguished professor" rank with high salaries to attract top talent, and overhauled the sociology department...
...minute documentary on Paul Anka, displays the singer's world with wild irony. Interviews are shot full in the face, with quick cuts to the hands or facial features to support a verbal point. (Anke's manager: "The boy is great, simply great. We haven't seen such a talent in five hundred years." Anka: "I'm just using the talent I was given to make people happy.") The shots of Anka's performances are superb: a focus on the singer, his face, then a quick cut to a close-up of a screaming girls, which establishes the connection more...