Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irresolute comedy. Mary, Mary was a joke-filled shopping bag that existed to be torn so that the laughs would tumble out. Poor Richard is a net hopefully cast to trap character and at least two themes of some gravity-the capacity to love and the squandering of talent...
...cash-and-carry basis. Detroit's job printers, who first sneered at Dworkin's proffered business, soon accepted it gratefully. From abruptly laid-off newspaper salesmen, the neophyte publisher put together a willing business staff. And finally, when all else was in place, he got the professional talent he desperately needed: unemployed editorial staffers from the Free Press...
...executives have been named to the corps' board, and Chase Manhattan's David Rockefeller-one of the original proponents of the idea-has been elected chairman to succeed the late C. D. Jack-on of Time Inc. Along with money, U.S. corporations hopefully will also offer talent. The Service Corps has already received 3,000 inquiries about its program, sifted out 700 as particularly promising. It is now trying to recruit the kind of young middle-managers who are most needed-but who can be pried away from most corporations for two years only with great difficulty...
Last week, while preparing for the Nov. 28 annual pro draft, the scouts opened their books on the men who will be getting the big money-and big it will be. With the upstart American Football League challenging the staid old N.F.L. for talent, a promising young man can write his own ticket-bonus of $25,000 and up, free car, free house, $15,000-a-season salary, twice what rookies earned a few years ago. TIME'S pro-picked All-America...
...days was a skinny girl, but over the years her stature grew in both senses. She is supersensitive about her weight, and understandably cried through the night once when-after she had performed with another heavy singer-a critic wrote: "Last night the stage contained 600 Ibs. of pure talent." The talent moves as well as sings. One of Ella Fitzgerald's secrets is that she really wishes she were a dancer. When she feels good onstage, she becomes as physical as she is vocal, cutting steps left and right to underscore her song...