Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dearth of talent makes the situation worse. If tomorrow a call went out from the publishers for sophisticated, original songs, they probably would get few more than their current annual handful. During the twenties, which started off with Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern already established, every year or two along came new talent such as the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter and Vincent Youmans. Suddenly the rain stopped, and today, with occasional exceptions, Rodgers, Berlin, and Porter write the best songs and the biggest hits. Kern, Gershwin, and Youmans are dead: the others can't write music forever. Somebody...
...Speakers and Entertainment Committee is looking for men who have entertainment talent of some sort. Novelty and comedy units and bands playing jazz, popular or square dance music are especially desired. Speakers on any topic are also needed...
...leading scholars, poets and philosophers gathered in Princeton last week. They were there to help 200-year-old Princeton honor its own past by planning for the world's future. The problem: what is a university's responsibility to One World? The visitors (and such local talent as Albert Einstein) argued for three days, in lecture halls and over coffee. Nationalism came in for some heavy blows from everybody...
President Conant, addressing the Society of Harvard Dames at Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon on "The University Tradition in a Changing World," acknowledged the price we pay for our American educational system "is our failure to locate talent at an early age and prepare it adequately during the school years...
...Talent Search...