Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fame's production of There Shall Be No Night, Katharine Cornell posed grandly before the camera in an "eggplant-colored chiffon velvet hostess gown" by Valentina and said to Charles Boyer: "Say something thrilling, Karoly. Something profound." That was quite an order for even so formidable a talent as Boyer's, considering the staggering handicaps of the script. In his 90-minute TV adaptation of the Robert E. Sherwood play, Radio Writer Morton (The Eternal Light] Wishengrad shed little light on the character of the Nobel Prizewinning medical scientist who has a hard time realizing that "intelligence...
...hard, finally, to isolate material from method, the world's violence from Williams' own, because of the garish orchestrating of his protest, the sheer fireworks of his pessimism. Talent as vivid as Williams' is often as lopsided; few highly personal visions of life are notably panoramic. What tells against Orpheus Descending is less something limited than something lurid; what vitiates the play, even as it animates it, is so canny a theater sense. It is the stage's melodrama, not the world's malevolence, that consistently wears its heartlessness on its sleeve...
...society where capital and able management have become essential to newspapers along with journalistic talent, many will still agree with Churchill, that the ultimate responsibility for the press rests with the newspaper and magazine owners. "They have the power not only of the press but of the SUP-press," says Churchill. As if by magic, rumpled, rambling Critic Churchill got additional ammunition to back the charge. Britain's biggest newsstand distributor, which is loudly denounced in Churchill's book, has refused to handle it, on grounds that it might be libelous*; the book lambastes almost every major London...
...Succeed. Searching for the "elegant, modern, beautiful, and cultured," Edna Chase was a shrewd, resourceful scrapper. For years she feuded (but always in discreet modulations) with Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who bought Harper's Bazaar to compete with Vogue in 1913, later wooed away much of her top talent, including her heiress apparent, Carmel Snow. (Although they often appear to be identical twins, Vogue still leads Harper's Bazaar in circulation, 392,507 to 365,023, and Old Rival Snow, now editor in chief, readily admits "Edna Chase really started fashion journalism...
...many engineers the convention was less a chance to study new developments than an opportunity to get new jobs. For their part, engineering firms, hard-pressed by a steadily increasing shortage of engineers (TIME, May 30), used the convention as a rich hunting ground for talent. Page after page of display ad's in Manhattan newspapers and trade journals invited engineers to investigate a wide variety of engineering jobs offering tempting salaries up to $15,000. Though open recruiting was forbidden at the convention, several companies complained that engineers were being "pirated" right at the convention's exhibit...