Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book (Report on the Russians; TIME, March 19) popped down on bookstands than angry denunciations began popping down on the author. From the fury of the criticism, White might have been Joseph Goebbels instead of a veteran newsman, with his late father William Allen White's talent for making homespun phrases-and irritating snap judgments...
Under the U.S. quake rumbling up from the south, the Government in Tokyo trembled like a seismograph's needle. For the fourth time in three weeks Premier General Kuniaki Koiso, who is dubbed "The Tiger" and has a catlike talent for landing on his political feet, again shuffled his feet and his Cabinet. He accepted the resignation of portly, aging (68) Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, lover of bridge, ex-governor of Formosa, onetime naval commander in chief, and president of the powerful Imperial Rule Assistance Political Society (Japan's totalitarian party). The Admiral did not sail into retirement...
Benevenuto Cellini's amorous escapades rank as high in history as his creations of art; Max Gordon's current version may not be authentic, but it is lavish, tasteful theatre, literally bulging at the seams in an effulgent abundance of talent. Ira Gershwin's witty lyrics match the temper of Weill's music well, and Maurice Abravahel gets racing vitality from the orchestra. Catherine Littlefield has met the choreography assignment with dancing that whips merrily along at a tingling clip. Raoul Pene DuBois prepared dazzling costumes, Jo Mielziner splendiferous settings, and to top it all off, the staging was handled...
...make the success complete, a virtually unknown cast of young hopefuls executes with competence and enthusiasm the work of young writers, Howard Richardson and William Berney, a young composer, Walter Hendl, and young directorial talent. Carol Stone looks delightfully untamed; Richard Hart darts through his witchery with fiery grace and makes the play's seriousness very credibly unaffected...
Then come the days of festivities. The traditional Pre-commissioning Banquet will be held on Tuesday, 27 February at the Harvard Club (which, we trust, most of the boys--even those from the West--can pronounce correctly now without the aid of phonetic spelling). Talent is still needed and all candidates brave enough to face such an audience are urged to contact our MC at once...