Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purpose halfback-quarterback at Salt Lake City's Granite High in 1958, Fortie drew only fleeting interest from college scouts. University of Utah boosters invited him to a recruiting banquet, but the dinner was postponed. Utah State talent hunters asked him to a swimming party, took one look at his skinny body in swimming trunks and crossed him off. When less choosy Brigham Young offered him an athletic scholarship, devout Mormon Fortie jumped at the chance. As a sophomore at B.Y.U., he played second-string T-formation quarterback: last year, as a single-wing tailback, he was a sensation...
...made it big in Europe. This season's entry is Mezzo-Soprano Grace Bumbry, 25, who made her Manhattan concert debut last week in Carnegie Hall. Her performance of Duparc songs, Italian songs, Schubert, Brahms, Liszt and Strauss lieder and Negro spirituals was eloquent exposition of a native talent that has been too long coming home...
...German musicians, is that their country concentrated so intensely on physical reconstruction after the war that there was little time or inclination for cultural activities. Anxious to correct the situation, the Music Council has organized a new foundation for musical affairs. By providing scholarships and better facilities for young talent, the foundation hopes to make sure that Beethoven will continue to be played in the land...
Gypsy. "Hold yer hats an "hallelujah!" the burlescuties used to bellow, "Momma's gonna show it to ya!'' Momma in the present instance is Rosalind Russell, and at 55 all she's showing is talent-but hallelujah! The old girl rips, roars, romps, rampages and rollicks through this raucous musical like Woody the Woodpecker's wife...
Suddenly the bottom falls out of Momma's act. Baby June, aged 13, runs away and launches an independent career as June Havoc. Indomitably, Momma decides to make a star out of Louise. Unhappily, the girl has no talent. But she has a body, and Momma soon finds a way to make it famous...