Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national champion Bulldogs boasted fine talent in the 50- and 100-yard free style (two men named Alan Ford and Brewster-Macfadden), but their ability elsewhere was not so deep...
Errand Boy. Most U.S. political machines, however disreputable, have two saving graces to their credit: 1) they are close enough to the people to know basic human desires, tragedies and needs; 2) their bosses, earthy and disillusioned men, have sometimes found talent where more snobbish souls would never have thought to look. In 1921, with his haberdashery under the hammer and black days ahead, Truman looked up some old servicemen friends in the Pendergast organization. Truman was a veteran, a farmer, a Mason, a Democrat from three generations back; he had friends all over Jackson County. The machine made...
...behind The Man Behind the Gun is voluble, dark, dimpled William Northrup Robson. His position at CBS is similar to Hollywood's coveted producer-directorships: he makes up his own budget, hires his own talent, produces and directs his shows. His forte is an impeccable sense of timing, an unusual respect for understatement...
...have a special talent, volunteer your efforts. If you have a typewriter and can type, donate a half hour a week to the Yearbook. If you like to take snapshots, take them of members of your class, of activities and surroundings of the school. About two or three hundred pictures will be needed for the book. We may be able to use yours...
...Tony's athletic history has been a series of spurts to the top. Serving as '39 baseball captain, he was picked up by a talent scout and shipped at Louisville, where he got his "basic." Too good for a minor league club, Lupien was bought by a Red Sox farm and then, when Al Flair got drafted, "Tony" took his place at first base...