Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wise Anne O'Hare McCormick, foreign affairs expert, who has a special talent for the examination of Anglo-American relations, came in on the same beam...
Lionel Barrymore's pleasant symphonic Partita was played by Conductor Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, was well received by Indiana-politans. Said intense Russian Sevitzky (nephew of Boston's Serge Koussevitsky): "Barrymore has as much talent musically as he has dramatically." The actor started composing at 18, modeled his work after his idols Bach and Handel, in 1942 orchestrated McDowell's Sea Pieces (originally for piano). Said Barrymore of Sevitzky: "We don't know each other and yet are good friends. He sees me one day on the screen and I listen the next...
...heart attack ; in Old Greenwich, Conn. The pleasure-loving, 290-lb., 6 ft. 3 in. Cornellman ('05) was successively a Washington reporter, Belgian and Russian correspondent, European graduate student, U.S. college professor (Antioch, 1922-23), associate editor of the Baltimore Sun (1923-24). He discovered his talent for the affable packaging of intellectual pabulum with his Story of Mankind (1921). With a roughage of Dutch wit, a vitamin-content of "human-interest background," and doodled-over with his own pen-&-ink sketches, his The Story of the Bible, The Arts, Van Loon's Lives sold...
...bearing ore lands to a DPC contract to build and operate a $70,000,000 magnesium plant. Basic Magnesium, the company's operating subsidiary, stood to net a fat $840,000 yearly on the deal, although "it had no financial resources and only the most meager experience and talent." Typical result: although the magnesium-bearing ore was over 200 miles distant, the plant was so poorly located that ore had to be shipped by rail some 950 miles to reach it. Cost of the plant rocketed from $70,000,000 to $133,000,000 ($1.81 per lb. of magnesium...
...main talent, is good except for Frank Parker, who should be replaced if anyone seated beyond the first two rows is expected to hear the show's main ballad. Gertrude Niesen as "Bubbles LaMarr," a curvesome stripper, is fine. To her are allotted much of the good comedy material and the only good songs --"I Wanna Get Married" and "Follow the Girls," and she makes the most of her opportunities...