Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Counselor Brownell soon displayed a real talent for efficient administration-and if there was anything the Department of Justice needed, it was efficient administration. Some of the cases in the files when Brownell took over had been hanging around for a full generation. Field offices were supposed to turn in progress reports only once a year-and even then there was little reason to believe that anyone read them. Brownell instituted an elaborate IBM index system to tabulate reports-required monthly-so that Washington can now keep close track of every case at every stage of the legal game. Brownell...
Nevertheless, in his clarity of comprehension and expression and his ability to direct himself squarely to the kernel of his tale, Sourian shows his very considerable talent. "Miri" is a first novel which excites hopes of much finer things to come with the broadening of the author's experience...
...working women last week, only Kim (Bus Stop) Stanley, in Studio One's Traveling Lady, scored. For so formidable a talent, it was a limited victory because it slipped by the critics relatively unnoticed. The Horton Foote adaptation of his 1954 play, which made a star out of Kim, was pared down by some 40 minutes for TV but lost little of its tenuous, dreamlike quality. As a homely, stammering drudge who is trying to reclaim her no-account husband just out of jail, Actress Stanley gave a sunlit performance. Like a hand picking up broken glass, she limned...
Beaver's Bite. The British critics' chief target is the Independent Television Authority's commercial Channel 9, which is so U.S.-infected as to make BBC seem "a stern, inflexible nurse of home-grown talent." Johnnie Ray turned up as the star performer of Easter Sunday's feature program. Sniggered the Express: "Twiddle the dial any evening, and the chances are that the crack of a shot in Dragnet will set the objets d'art tinkling on your chimney piece. Or that pathetic crib of an American quiz show, The $64,000 Question, will dribble...
Meanwhile, back at the agency that produced the ad. Adman Howard Becker modestly disclaimed any special talent for creating the likeness of a radio pundit. Said he: "It's simple, really. If you speak in a portentous voice, write copy in short, terse style, make everything sound important, you sound like Murrow-no matter...