Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the rules on eligibility are not quite as strict as they were for the Olympic games, countries such as Canada and Czechoslovakia will be able to use semi-professional talent to strengthen their teams. "Particularly Canada should be better," Cleary said, "since it will use several players from the Junior Canadians, an affiliate of the Montreal Canadiens in the National League...
Jack's pull, however, was not always in proportion to its charm, which was sporadic. Top-heavy with talent (Celeste Holm, Cyril Ritchard, Dennis King, Leora Dana, Billy Gilbert) and electronic gimmickry, the big beanstalk was often heavy on its feet. Main trouble: for a 90-minute musical, the music just wasn't very good. Best scene: Choreographer Rod Alexander's March of the Ill-Assorted Guards, with Newcomer Joel Grey, 24, who as Jack showed real promise in the difficult triple chore of actor, singer and dancer...
Meanwhile Joey was getting ready for the big time. An Italian conductor named Gino Lombardi discovered his conducting talent, started training him, e.g., records and scores every day before breakfast. After Joey shared programs in Miami and Long Beach, N.Y.. father Alfidi hired the Symphony of the Air and Carnegie Hall at a total cost of $10,000. Papa is sure Joey will become a great conductor. But if not, there is his baby brother, who, says Papa, already hums the first bars of Beethoven's Fifth at the age of two years...
...Manhattan showing makes clear, is a love of portraiture and landscape. In the 18th century, Hogarth not only set down with unerring eye the look of crowded London coffeehouses, but portrayed the dissolute Englishman of his day with a skill and fervor far beyond mere pamphleteering and caricature. The talent Gainsborough showed for catching the majesty of England's landscape became Britain's prime contribution to painting in the hands of his successors: John Constable, who lavished the same care on cloud formations that Italian Renaissance masters gave the nude, and Joseph Mallord William Turner, who analyzed...
Watching the night flares burst above the fighting was one veteran observer of battle who had seen The Peculiar War from the start. In Pork Chop Hill, Detroit Newsman S.L.A. (for Samuel Lyman Atwood) Marshall, 56, again proves his talent for dramatizing the down-to-mud reality of the average American's experience in combat. His newest book puts the microscope to a phase of combat little known to the U.S. public: the painful, drawn-out stalemate (1952-53) that anti-climaxed the Korean war. "One funda mental question," says Marshall in his preface, "in Korea...