Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic City, Beatrice Shopp, 18 ("Miss Minnesota"), was named "Miss America of 1948," winning a $5,000 scholarship, a Nash car, and untold publicity. Her measurements: height, 5 ft. 9 in.; weight, 138 Ibs.; bust 37 in. Her talent: she played the vibraharp. Said "Bebe": "I am only a farm girl. I drive a tractor. I clean the chicken coops. I mix cement...
...party's best talent, with the exception of Vice Presidential Candidate Glen Taylor, was on hand. For three hours before Wallace appeared, they had exhorted and entertained the crowd. New York's Communist-minded Congressman Vito Marcantonio went through his forensic routine, stamping his foot, convulsively clawing the air. His target was New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, whom he attacked as "FlipFlop Willie" because the mayor, having once praised the American Labor Party, now called it Communist...
...youth a rural physician in Neuvic, central France, now a 64-year-old Radical Socialist, Dr. Queuille is small (5 ft. 4 in.), slight, and endowed with a mouselike talent for making himself inconspicuous. Last week he ordered the members of his cabinet not to leave Paris for two months, in view of the financial emergency. His program stuck close to the Reynaud plan, which had caused the Socialists to upset the last two governments. Fear of Charles de Gaulle was making the Socialists meeker...
Bostonians were not surprised to see the Red Sox leading their league. In Slugger Ted Williams (batting .367) and other stars, the Sox had plenty of obvious talent. Manager Joe McCarthy, though new to the team this year (TIME, Aug. 9), had brought them along beautifully. But what really pleased Boston was the performance of the unglamorous Braves, who have not captured the flag since 1914. What was the secret of the 1948 Braves? Puzzled fans decided it must be the same factor that had put the Sox out in front, only more so -a manager...
...young Yale professor had an immediate success with a first novel, The Asiatics. Frederic Prokosch had written a story so flamboyantly adventurous and so rich in pure writing talent that to carp at its philosophical maunderings seemed petty. Wrote Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann: "I count it among the most brilliant and original achievements of the young literary generation." The trouble is that Prokosch has gone on writing variants of the same book for 13 years. His latest is Storm and Echo, like The Asiatics, a blend of far places, strange and terrible events, and a murky, anguished, generally unsuccessful search...