Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersey's teeming (pop. 700,000) Hudson County, where annual county and city elections are among the liveliest in the U.S., newsmen who are willing to turn out speeches and publicity for political candidates have long found a rewarding short-term market for their talents. Reporters on Sam Newhouse's Jersey Journal (circ. 98,565) have enjoyed a virtual monopoly as political pressagents. The opposition Hudson Dispatch, the county's only other comparable pool of literary talent, has traditionally barred its employees from participating in political campaigns, while the Journal's policy has been to grant...
...night janitor in 1951, the more the pupils and teachers of the Edwin Markham Elementary School in the Portland, Ore. school district began to realize that there was something special about shy, quiet Horace Bixby. Because of the Depression, "Bix" had never finished college. But he had an obvious talent for science and mechanics-and an even more important knack for getting along with children. He brought them birds and fish to study and care for. He built them an incubator, a model cloud chamber...
...have been informed that there are some very active groups and I hope they will continue and even increase," he said. "The more good talent that is sold on Harvard, the more chance of giving them the type of football they want," he explained...
Books and lyrics were the work of Jay Cavior while Victor Ziskin composed the music. The two gentlemen have splashed their considerable talent all over On the Rocks and time and time again the result is sparkling. A few of the lyrics are unexciting and some of the music is dull, but these are the exceptions as the audience is always tapping, sometimes humming, occasionally clapping in beat with the kick line, and once joined in for the chorus of a calypso number...
...committee, established by the New England Governors' conference in 1952, suggested improvements in research and managerial talent. A further remedy was seen in raising salaries in low-wage areas such as the South, "which would help us to compete fairly...