Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard, hello Sampson) Banquet are rapidly being formed. Entertainment is at present being quietly solicited. Jack Brunner, who evidently favors tennis courts to ballrooms, will be there with his guitar. Croonin' Huddy Futral promises to give the boys a tune. (Futral--the deflated Sinatra). A whole host of talent will be there...
Wednesdays, Too. Guadalcanal has a lot of amateur and professional talent. Promoter of the fights is Sergeant John Williams, two-time welterweight winner of Chicago's Golden Gloves. Like any smart ring operator, he sponsors preliminary bouts on Wednesdays to give new fighters experience. His stable of 150 fighters is headed by Marine Moe Weiss of The Bronx, middleweight winner of 50 out of 57 pro bouts before enlisting, and his twin brother Harvey...
...program of big-budget pictures. Eventually, M.G.M. London under Korda and Goetz will turn out 16 of them yearly -a figure without precedent in England. Last week Ben Goetz was in Manhattan recruiting actors, writers, etc. for their big job. He was working on a scheme for an international talent commuting system, between Hollywood and Elstree...
...counterspies and a plot to blow up Halifax. There is also a stunningly funny old comic (Margaret Rutherford), playing the sort of tetched, tweedy Englishwoman whose lightest whisper is a yawp. As a spy-thriller, the picture would be no better than pleasantly, mediocre but for the unshakable British talent for investing bit-players at telephones, extras at lifeboat drill, and even the leading players with vitality, intelligence and a nodding acquaintance with actual life...
...been the association of Catto and Keynes-sometimes referred to as Lords Catto and Doggo-that some observers predicted a revolution in Britain's financial policy. In fact, Lord Catto's appointment was simply one more instance of Britain's genius for adapting all kinds of talent to the service of King and country...