Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Hour is a skillful blend of Army and NBC talent. The Army provides the cast and the military props. NBC pays the costs ($3,500 a week) and supplies the broadcast facilities. A staff of seasoned radiomen (Writer-Producer-Director Wyllis Cooper, Studio Director Eddie Dunham, Liaison Man Captain Ed Byron) put the show together. The man who conceived it is Lieut. Colonel Edward M. Kirby, chief of the radio branch of the War Department's Bureau of Public Relations...
...went to work for the Sun last week, 45-year-old Eli Zachary Dimitman had never worked outside Philadelphia. He joined the Philadelphia Inquirer 18 years ago as rewriteman, was city editor when Moses L. (Moe) Annenberg, the racing-sheet publisher now dead, took over the Inquirer in 1936. Talent-wise Moe Annenberg at once made Dimmy executive editor...
...naturally at a standstill, even U.S. postwar isolationists now believe that some such plan is a key to postwar prosperity and continued peace. As in the case of the Beveridge Plan for social security, Britain has laid down the first proposal. And again Britain drew on her top-drawer talent. Economist Keynes first made his reputation in 1920 with his devastating criticism of the Versailles Treaty-The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Since then his pioneering work on the theory of employment has widely influenced U.S. economists, New Deal and conservative alike...
Doing road work (see cut) with his new-bought baseball club, the perennial last-place Phillies, was apple-shaped Owner William D. Cox, 33-year-old Manhattan lumberman, onetime catcher at New York University. He looked like a good prospect for his own talent-shy team...
...name band. Its members are up early in the morning for calisthenics and rifle drill. They also have machine-gun practice. From 1 o'clock in the afternoon until dinnertime they rehearse everything from Tchaikovsky to Cow-Cow Boogie. Four nights a week they broadcast with such assisting talent as Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen, Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour and Fanny Brice. Their U.S.-sponsored programs, two over coast-to-coast networks, are Thursday's Wings to Victory, Friday's Hello Mom, Saturday's Soldiers with Wings, Sunday's Wings over the West Coast...