Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate school at Columbia he soured on astronomy, took his master's degree in higher mathematics with a thesis on An Introduction to Inversive Geometry. He still regards mathematics as "the most beautiful of all human activities," but dropped it as a career on deciding that his talent for the subject equipped him for nothing more creative than teaching...
Building a team as good as the Truckers in one season meant competing for talent with the five other fine N.I.B.L. teams* and bargaining against the moneymen of pro basketball as well. Kolowich hired former Notre Dame Footballer Jerry Groom to beat the drum and brought aggressive Johnny Dee from the University of Alabama to coach. Backed by the generous assets of DC Trucking's multimillion-dollar business, Groom and Dee peddled some convincing arguments in the fleshpots of college basketball...
...world of music had found a slave ? one who would, if he could, become its master. Jennie Bernstein's little buster started slowly, but at 20 he came busting out of Boston's unfashionable suburbs with alarming drive and talent. The tone for his spectacular career was set with the now legendary incident, 13 years ago, when, as a virtually unknown, 25-year-old assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, he triumphantly substituted for ailing Bruno Walter ? without rehearsal. "Like a shoe string catch in center field," explained the New York Daily News. "Make...
...ability to put his life in order and his work in form. He can divide his brain into three or four separate task forces, attack three or four different objectives?prepare a script, study a score, work out a melody, amuse a child?all at the same time. His talent for patterns has made him a passionate crossword puzzler and anagrammarian (these days, though, he feels guilty about being caught wasting time, and hides crossword puzzles inside scores or books...
...Lennie. Music was not Lennie's only talent. He was brilliant in almost every subject in school; and when he turned 13 his body all at once caught up with his mind. "It was wonderful," he says. "One day I was a scrawny little thing that everybody could beat up, and the next time I looked around I was the biggest boy in the class. I could run faster, jump higher, dive better than almost any body, and all the girls wanted to feel my muscles." His sense of relief was so terrific that it became a kind of constitutional...