Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along Radio Row, distinguished necks were bared to the ax. The networks' fall schedules were almost filled in. Yet nobody had met the ante for such top-dollar talent as Nelson Eddy, Hildegarde, Rudy Vallee, and the wisemen on Information Please. Instead, low-priced shows had been snapped up. The reason: radio advertisers had pared their budgets to the bone (TIME...
...more important than Crosby's proposition was its corollary: if other radio stars followed his lead with transcriptions, any independent station would be able to air talent that only networks can now afford. If Philco accepts, the show will probably go on over ABC or Mutual. The big networks, NBC and CBS, have too much to lose; large-scale transcribing could rip them apart...
...Luis Olmo, Danny Gardella and George Hausmann had sagged fought, out of the .300 class. The Card's fugitive Max Lanier had won six and lost one, but some of the home-grown pitchers were doing better. Pasquel's favorite club, Vera Cruz, well stocked with U.S. talent, was in last place; Mickey Owen, batting only .243, had been fired as manager...
...give-away shows: "Too many programs of late are built on the questionable theory that philanthropy is an adequate substitute for talent...
...work, play and superstition the hard way. At home in Recife, capital of Pernambuco, he had grown up like most of the pampered sons of rich sugar growers. He threw around his father's money, traveled in Europe, killed time with other playboys on Copacabana beach. A precocious talent made him a fashionable magazine illustrator before...