Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee all but completed his Government. But he had had to scrape the Labor Party barrel for experienced talent...
Instead of smalltime bylines, American Weekly will henceforth parade such high-priced talent as Fannie Hurst, John Erskine, Paul Gallico, Damon Runyon, et al, from Hearst's Cosmopolitan circuit...
...about 45% of T.W.A. stock. Pan Am, with impish innocence, reminded the CAB of this. By nightfall, Washington remembered that Frye was best man when Elliott Roosevelt married Cinemactress Faye Emerson on the Grand Canyon rim last December. Hollywood instantly recalled that Elliott met Faye through Johnny Meyer, a talent scout and handy man for Hughes. All this occurred while Franklin Roosevelt was in the White House, and before the CAB had ruled on the T.W.A. applications...
...work on Broadway and Hollywood. By V-E day, when the Army gave him a solid green light for transportation, he had his quota of stars and garters. Ready for action were smash-hit shows, top-bill specialty acts, operatic and concert stars, any and every other kind of talent...
Professor Strode does not believe that everybody can be taught how to write. He restricts his four-session-a-week "clinic" to those who he thinks have genuine latent talent; twelve to 14 is the usual number. They read no textbooks, hear no lectures, spend their entire time writing, revising, polishing, criticizing each other's products, absorbing pungent Strode comments...