Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bertram Baldwin's Quartet was very promising. Although there was some mixing of styles during the piece, it had fine strong moments that indicated a real talent. The performances in this concert were of high caliber; Soprano Sarah Jane Smith and Cellist Lawrence Lesser were especially outstanding...
...Corcoran Gallery of Art, I am deeply honored to be included in Cartoonist Al Capp's "small group of the unbalanced," etc., which has given him so much pain [Feb. 18]. In the loneliness of my basement studio I am eternally grateful that I have never degraded my talent or my conscience nor sold my soul-for a bowl of mud-mushrooms...
Because of its location in the temple of the Brahmins, WGBH is top-heavy with free talent. Recent shows included lectures by Pastor Martin Niemöller, Novelist Edwin (The Last Hurrah) O'Connor, Author-Ethnologist Oliver La Farge and Ambassador James B. Conant. British Labor Boss Hugh Gaitskell's three Harvard lectures on foreign policy were carried in full. Drama Critic Walter Kerr discussed contemporary theater with Playwright Arthur Miller. Harvard Law Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. completed a 16-part series on the Constitution and human rights only a week before his death (TIME...
Reddish and only ¼in. long, the fire ant has a peculiar talent: it chews a slit in the skin of its victim, lifts the skin with its mandibles, curves its abdomen under its body and injects a dose of fluid which causes fiery pain, raises angry welts, and may form a pocket of pus. Victims highly sensitive to ant poison may be hospitalized for weeks; a baby in New Orleans was killed by the ants...
Died. Eugene Edward (Gene) Buck, 71, longtime (1924-42) chief of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), composer of some 500 songs (Hello, Frisco!, Tulip Time) and talent scout for Flo Ziegfeld (he boomed such unknowns as Ed Wynn, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers); of an aneurysm of the aorta; in Manhasset...