Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such an answer is too narrow. These celebrities work before audiences, which ask only to be entertained-and which are too often unwilling to accept the Negro as an equal beyond recognition of physical or artistic talent...
Played with prancing, gleeful guile by Robert Preston, the role of Nat Bentley is as magnetic as sin. Playwright Ronald Alexander has surrounded him with zany astrologers of the marketplace-hack writers, foxy talent agents, dubbed-in laugh effects men-who cast horoscopes under the sign of the dollar to see if the public will prefer the TV story of a myna bird that refuses to talk or a chimpanzee that plays Lady Macbeth. The dialogue is more quippish than witty, but the hip mass-media-men-at-work lingo scatters the laughs over an occasional drab patch of script...
...wears high-button cleats, laments his departed hair, and eats meatball sandwiches before each game because he thinks they bring him luck. At 33, Giant Halfback Frank Gifford is the man in the collar ads, the face that launched a thousand razor-blade commercials. Each has a special talent: Tittle throws a football better than anybody (60% completion average, a record 36 TD passes this year), and Gifford catches it better than most...
...nearly two years, a talent-scouting committee has been searching the U.S. for a new president of the nation's most famous nondenominational seminary, Union Theological, in Manhattan. Last week the board of directors elected a man who had been on campus all along: Dr. John Coleman Bennett, 61, who was dean of the faculty from 1955 until he became acting president after the retirement of Henry Pitney Van Dusen last June...
Most Secretive. In London, N. M. Rothschild & Sons is constructing a new, six-story headquarters in the City to symbolize its revival. It continues to be Britain's most secretive bank, but it is getting a little less so. To lure fresh talent and provide for its expanding services, the bank has admitted three non-Rothschilds as partners (the family still controls with four partners). The British Rothschilds, who still are the world's most important bullion dealers, have started a factoring company, an investment advisory service and two mutual funds, are participating in a consortium to underwrite...