Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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College sport-addicts will get their first opportunity to see what Harvard's 800-odd newcomers have to offer in the way of athletic talent this afternoon, when Adolf Samborski, taking over the Crimson baseball worries from the vacation departed Floyd Stahl, assembles his summer squad at 2:30 o'clock at Soldier's Field...
...with so much talent for public relations, handsome Ed Stettinius has had a queer whirl from history...
...urban and industrial reconstruction, the Ukraine has fine executive and technical talent at the top official and engineering levels. Lower down is a notable lack of tools, trained supervisors and skilled labor. At the Dnieper Dam, the three head engineers were pupils of the dam's late famed U.S. builder, Hugh Cooper. Two of them had studied in the U.S. Their assistants, however, are inexperienced young engineers. Qualified foremen are rare and 40% of the labor force is made up of inefficient peasant girls, many of whom are prematurely aged by the hard manual work...
...advertising. Long a leading purveyor of that curious phenomenon of U.S. culture, the soap opera, the company is going to cut down. Luckman has nothing against soap opera as such. Says he: "You can't reach a mass market with a symphony orchestra." But he thinks that radio talent has become too high-priced for Lever's advertising dollar...
...Unlike his father, he has shown little flair for selling. Most of Unilever's plans are concocted by Geoffrey Heyworth, the stocky, handsome chairman of the board. A onetime Rugby player, he came to Lever at 18, has climbed to the top chiefly because of his rare organizational talent which has kept the empire running with a maximum of dispatch, a minimum of confusion. When Chairman Heyworth has some important business with U.S. Lever Bros., he does not follow the tortuous way to Cambridge via South Africa. Instead, he simply picks up the phone, calls Chuck Luckman long distance...