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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breathless days, the U.S. people got an idea of how their new President would carry on: Harry Truman was quick, decisive, seemed to have a talent for working hard without getting confused or losing his temper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Ten Days | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

Founded on a ridiculous misconception of justice, produced by Selznick International with unfailing sentimentality, and ludicrously miscast in attempt to use available star talent, "I'll Be Seeing You" is an imposing monument to the maudlin tastes and perverted emotions of Hollywood's film-makers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 4/17/1945 | See Source »

...league clubs were in Yawkey's state of mind. Fewer irreplaceables had been lost to the services than anyone dared hope last winter. For managers as well as fans, hits and fast balls had cut clean through the gloom, even if there was a little less talent in some spots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pennant Prospects | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

With cash prizes and possible publication in "Wake" or "Pro Tem" offered as inducement, the international Club of Harvard and Radcliffe is at present conducting a contest to unearth latent talent for poetry in the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: International Club Sponsors Student Poetry Competition | 4/3/1945 | See Source »

...Jerusalem, holy city of Jew, Moslem and Christian, every political skirmish leaves a wide-open wound. A talent for healing is a prime requisite for the job of the British High Commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Three- Way Compromise | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

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