Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Added talent from last year's Freshmen were on hand in the forms of Bill Allen, Gid Loring, Myles Huntington, and Johnny Chase (no relation), with footballers Doug Bradlee, Mel Freedman and the injured Dick Greeley expected to appear next week...
...turning loose his full reserve strength Lamar revealed much previously dormant talent. Bob DiBlasio, out with an injury most of the season, turned in some expert play at fullback as did Jerry Kanter, Jim Brennan and Tom Connors at guard...
Ever since Herbert Hoover retired from presidential business cycle prognostication to private life and Sunday supplement interviews, a lot of people including Herbert Hoover have been wondering why all this talent can't be put to better use. This issue will crystallize in the next session of Congress where an already drafted bill will be offered guaranteeing Hoover a steady job. The legislation cannot be assailed on party bias, however, because it would also keep Harry Truman out of haberdashery and on the floor of the Senate for good in the event of defeat...
...bill calls for all ex-presidents to become senators-for-life on the theory that the talent of elder statesmen should not lie fallow after they step down from the White House. The idea isn't new. In the days of President Buchanan the six ex-presidents still alive were known to have favored the scheme...
...loveliest things he had ever seen. Riding a hurtling Bronx express, they quarreled violently about it. When the train stopped, Orozco dashed out and disappeared into a blinding snowstorm. Siqueiros waited all night in the subway entrance, making occasional forays into the night, fearful that a great Mexican talent was freezing to death somewhere under the alien snow. Two days later Siqueiros learned that his angry friend had simply ended up at a party...