Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year's crop of freshmen has not only experience but talent as well. With the great potential he has to work with, Marion said, this year's freshman team could be a turning point in Harvard fencing. He says that as the freshmen advance to the varsity, Harvard could become one of the nation's fencing citadels...
...universities, the corporations, and the government would be a difficult task. For as John Kenneth Galbraith as-tutely argues in The New Industrial State--and his observations are not particularly original in this respect--the twentieth century has witnessed a growing dependence of both politicians and businessmen on academic talent...
...prospects for contemporary composers these days, he is unfashionably optimistic. "We have a larger, more promising and better-educated group of composers in this country than we have ever had," he says. "They are being heard more than they were 20 years ago." Financially, a composer with talent "could expect to be doing pretty well by the time he is 45 or 50." Clearly, in more ways than one, Schuller is doing pretty well...
Butcher's financial talent dovetails with Seabrook's knack for curing sick companies. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate ('39) of Princeton, Seabrook first rescued his own family company, Seabrook Farms, from a disastrous slump. In 1959, when his father, now dead, sold control of the frozen-food firm, Seabrook quit as president and joined Butcher. He became president of I.U. in 1965, and of General Waterworks last year. Often his doctoring of acquisitions involves nothing more startling than sending in a financial expert to bail out a sales-minded boss. "A lot of companies are mismanaged...
Shrewd Tricks. Brooklyn-reared Rosenthal showed his talent for making money soon after he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business ('56) and landed a $4,000-a-year job at the prestigious investment-banking house of Lehman Bros. In four years of shrewd stock trading ("I used every trick"), he managed to turn his own $2,500 nest egg into nearly $1,000,000. Then he launched out as an underwriter...