Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took off for a European vacation that soon turned into an art-collecting spree (including the purchase of 51 Rodin sculptures). With a new hobby on his hands, Collector Mayer decided to turn it into a business, set up a network of buying agents and talent scouts. His goal: to exhibit "the best contemporary art from as many nations as create...
Drifting Nation. Francois one talent -survival-has made him skillful in manipulating the forces that support his regime: army, church, party. He plays off the Monarchists against his Falangist party bosses, leaving both in doubt as to his successor. Last September Falange Secretary-General José Luis de Arrese and Agricultural Minister Rafael Cavestany, alarmed by Spain's drift, presented Franco with draft laws for a totalitarian state headed by the Falange Party. Franco stalled. A fortnight ago Arrese and Cavestany resigned. But faced with the unrest that is stirring throughout Spain (riots in Seville as well as boycotts...
...Kovacs' first chance at high season to show his stuff and his pulling power on NBC at a prime time. Program Chief Tom McAvity called it Ernie's "audition," explained: "If his rating is good, we hope to sell him as TV's big new comedy talent next fall...
...wife, Singer Edie Adams, has been delighting and annoying audiences only irregularly and at odd hours since he first leered onscreen seven years ago. Neither Kovacs nor his employer, NBC, seems able to explain why there is still no niche for his comparatively languid, low-pressure' talent in a business that constantly turns lesser comics into living-room idols. In a new effort to solve this puzzle, NBC last week handed Ernie his big challenge: a show following the widely ballyhooed Jerry Lewis solo...
Princeton coach Dick Vaughan has yet to pilot his team to a win this year. The Tiger Alumni team illustrated the present dearth of talent by winning its first game from the varsity since...