Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will stop raining tomorrow, for the World Series begins and all the writing talent of the College will wish to dock to the opening of the SERVICE NEWS fall competition without getting wet Beer, in addition, should not be drunk in wet weather, for the Med School students claim it brings ulcers. And ulcers keep you from drinking beer...
Even the professional pessimists admitted that the college football worm had turned. Enough name players were either out or coming out of service to make a big difference. A stepped-up Navy R.O.T.C. program (having taken the place of ¥12) was another talent source. And now that teen-age draft requirements, had been eased (see EDUCATION), even the fuzzy-cheeked freshmen who carried last year's load looked bigger & better...
...head of the biggest U.S. corporation, Sloan has always been an apostle of bigness. He believes that a vast organization, with its money and talent, can make things better and cheaper than a small company. Under his direction, G.M., which had been vast when he moved in, became even vaster. But expansion was not hit or miss. Part of it was something new in the auto industry : a big staff to get all the facts on anything G.M. wanted to do, a bigger research laboratory, under famed Charles F. Kettering, to find out the best...
When it headed for the Pacific, the 6th Marine Division boasted enough football talent to line up three all-star teams. Now, on the way back, the 6th would be hard-pressed to muster one full team. Some of those lost on Okinawa: Killed-Wisconsin's 1942 All-America end, 1st Lieut. Dave Schreiner; Purdue's 1943 All-America fullback (and leading Big Ten scorer), Corporal Tony Butkovich; Notre Dame's 1942 captain and end, 1st Lieut. George Murphy...
Each night, the contestants were introduced to the public from the stage of a boardwalk theater. They made only a brief appearance in bathing suits. They wore evening gowns for the serious business -proving to the judges that they possessed "talent." Since many of them had confessed rather wildly to having no "talent" at all, the results were often novel. Some sang, some recited, some tap-danced, and one girl played Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life on the marimba. Hundreds of soldiers and wounded veterans who came to the theater to look at legs, came back, fascinated, night after night...