Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gracie frankly admits that she is out to restake herself. Always openhanded, since Dunkirk she had contributed most of her time and talent to British War Relief. Radio is a way to "get some bills paid." Observes Gracie of her potent earning powers: "I'm 42 [she is 44] and that's nearly middleaged, but I hate to think of it and I don't believe it. My hair is blonde but I give it a bit of fixing-I do. I have teeth that were made by some mechanic and I wear glasses, and my legs...
...take the present darling, Dinah Shore. She is undoubtedly a far more capable singer than Hutton, especially in projecting her personality through radio and records. In the main, though, hers is a very limited and pedestrian talent compared with even the average swing musician's. Dinah's best interpretations are expressly designed for romance, and she is more than adept. Other times she signs pleasantly, if that well. If you like her, fine. But if you can listen to Benny Goodman, can separate the slag from the gold, and still like Dinah, your standards are inconsistent...
...amazed at the similarity between strict jazz and the thoroughbass music of Bach's time. In both cases you have the rigid rhythmic pattern over which an intricate web of thematic variations is woven. Bach's work had the advantage of being composed by a single highly developed talent, while jazz has to depend on a rare combination of many talents, a band where each player can give the theme a unique personal twist without destroying the musical continuity. When it's "in the groove," a good band rises out of its usual formulas (ordinary jazz is the most rigidly...
Wingback Gordy Lyle, who has been hidden behind Bill Wilson and Cleo O'Donnell, should see considerably more action for the rest of the season. Always a star in practice session, Lyle has shown a great deal of talent in his recent performances against Dartmouth and Army...
...accept Mr. Wallace's vision of 'the century of the common man' in even so modest a degree as is implied in the establishment of complete equality, of educational opportunity, of the career open to talent, of easy promotion in all walks of life from the ranks to positions of command? Victory depends on our offering the martyred nations of Europe a' cause for which to fight and die. Are we still too besotted by our terror of revolution to speak plainly the words that would convince the peoples and not merely the Governments that...