Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bert Haines, who coaches the 150 division, has almost no experienced talent to work with this year in his crop of freshmen. Not much more than spirit will be riding in the '52 150 shell this afternoon. Last year, Haines was blessed with a top notch freshman crew. Six members of it now row in the varsity lightweight craft...
...Kidding. Because the world champion Cleveland Indians had fewer weak spots than the rest, they were favorites to be the American League champions again. The Indians had been shrewder, and luckier, in filling another of baseball's great deficiencies: they had fresh pitching talent that could survive nine innings. They had big (6 ft. 3½ in.) Gene Bearden, who won 20 and lost 7 last year, plus assorted ablebodied veterans. In Manager Lou Boudreau they also had the smartest, hardest-hitting shortstop in baseball...
Basemen & Bailing Wire. In the National League, there was such a shortage of outstanding individual talent that no less than six clubs had a fighting chance for the pennant. The Brooklyn Dodgers were sifting and resifting young farmhands in a frantic search for a first-baseman who could hit. The latest of a long list of aspirants: a big Irishman from the Dodgers' Montreal farm by the name of Chuck Connors...
...delegate she sent her program director, shrewd, 32-year-old Ted Cott. As chairman of the independents' committee, Cott promised that the unaffiliated stations would all "speak with one voice" in the shaping of industry policies. The whole industry, worried by TV's threat, by intramural talent raids, and by sharpening competition for the advertising dollar, would listen closely to WNEW's theories. In prestige, programming and income, WNEW is the No. 1 independent...
...bang and the brio of I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair and I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy; there is Some Enchanted Evening, a fit consort for Oklahoma!'s beautiful morning. All in all, however, Rodgers' fine talent seemed far more individual in the days when his musical shows had crunchy centers rather than gooey ones...