Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FLOOD, by Robert Penn Warren. With his considerable talent for narrative and sense of place, the author of All the King's Men observes Fiddlersburg, Tenn., in the strange, revealing twilight that precedes the town's disappearance beneath the flooding waters of a federal dam project...
JEAN XCÉRON-Fried, 40 East 68th. A major artistic talent, Xceron, 74, left Greece at 14 to study art in the U.S., later spent ten formative years in Paris. A colorful sampling of his graceful cubist abstractions is given in recent oils, water-colors and drawings composed with lyrical lines in delicate pastels. Through...
Even top German women athletes-among them, Olympic Figure Skating Champion Marika Kilius and Sprinter Jutta Heine-look more like starlets than muscle-maids. At the Lido in Paris, where the famed Bluebell girls were once mostly English imports, one-fifth of the dancers are now German. Las Vegas talent scouts are also turning to Germany. Pan American Airways, which recruits 150 foreign stewardesses yearly, now finds a sizable percentage of them in West Germany. The Germans even boast two of Europe's prettiest politicians, Bundestag Deputies Hedda Heuser and Annemarie Renger...
...scratching around for months trying to find a candidate to oppose Republican Senator Kenneth Keating next November. Now a new name has been suggested. "I have reached a stage in life," said famed (My Life in Court) Attorney Louis Nizer, 62, "in which I would prefer to give such talent as I may have to public service rather than private clients." And he added: "I shall be earnestly receptive to the nomination, making no pretense, according to the political rule, that I am reluctant unless the honor is forced upon...
...when "we" meant a part-time correspondent for a Canadian newspaper and his redheaded wife Hadley. They were "Tatie" and "Binney" to each other and nothing to anybody else except a handful of fellow writers who shared the 25-year-old Midwesterner's tough belief in his own talent. He had sold a few short stories for marks in Germany and peanuts in the little magazines like transatlantic review. Gertrude Stein had told him he was not yet good enough for the Saturday Evening Post, and he was trying to beat the horses at Auteuil and Enghien to stake...