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Word: talents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Featuring skits by each platoon, company D held its first in a series of monthly smokers on June 24. The event, which was held in the Hasty Pudding club, unearthed a surprising amount of talent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/1/1943 | See Source »

...Eddie Johnson (George Montgomery) is a gambler out of work. His old colleague Joe Rocco (Cesar Romero) has done better: he owns the fanciest joint in Coney and employs Kate Farley (Betty Grable) as his star entertainer. Johnson sets up a rival establishment and starts stealing Rocco's talent as well as his business. Amidst the chicanery and the fisticuffing, Miss Grable shapes a fine career for herself on Broadway and in the arms of the man who was down but never out. She has always had a gift for looking well in the fewest possible clothes; she looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...Politics Firster Vandenberg quit placing his party ahead of his country. A lot of us citizens will cheerfully vote for a fourth term, thank you, rather than elect a glamorous general who has shown neither taste nor talent for the Presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 14, 1943 | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...film's patriotism is as torrential as its talent and may give civilians as well as servicemen a drowning sensation (examples in song: Marching Through Berlin; The Machine-Gun Song). But Stage Door Canteen is not only a big show with something for almost everybody, but also a potentially fine period piece recording a regiment of wartime show people and their uniformed audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jun. 14, 1943 | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

Together they formed a trusteeship for their newborn enterprise, christened it the All-American Girls Softball League. To run its affairs, Wrigley hired the Cubs' former assistant general manager, curly-haired, canny Ken Sells. To round up talent, he released Jimmy Hamilton from his job as Cub scout. The design of a suit able uniform he put into the capable hands of famed Poster Artist Otis Shepard, who is responsible for famed Wrigley pixies, car cards, and glamorizing of Catalina Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ladies of the Little Diamond | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

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