Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Without Horns. In view of the talent and tenacity that Dick Nixon has shown in ten years of dramatically successful political life, it was not surprising that he should be an effective campaigner in 1956. What surprised many political observers was his ability to become a shining asset-and not a liability-to the Republican cause. The victim of a concentrated assault unparalleled in recent U.S. political history, he first had to erase the black and distorted picture his foes had painted unceasingly for nearly eight years. One of his aides summed up the task: "We had to show...
...some obscure reason, WHRB and Steve Aaron have combined resources and talent to make a tape recording of the broadcast, following the original script. The cast is a combination of WHRB announcers and HDC actors, the latter faring better...
Today the title has almost lapsed. In the opera house teamwork is the cry. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera even forbids solo curtain calls. At home the opera star is often no more glamorous than a suburban housewife. In an age of small-scale talent and matching egos, the one diva who truly deserves the proud title of prima donna, with all its overtones of good and evil, is Maria Meneghini Callas...
John Trumbull's great talent for mirroring the sunrise of the U.S. was made apparent last week by a big retrospective exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn. More than 100 of his works were assembled for the show, marking the bicentennial of Trumbull's birth in Lebanon, Conn. Together they testified that Trumbull's reputation deserves to grow, for it does not yet match his just deserts...
...Soldier's Pet. Trumbull came into his own on the outbreak of the Revolution, with his valuable ability to make military maps. This talent, plus his father's connections, helped him rise. He served in the Continental Army for a year and a half (including a few weeks as Washington's aide-de-camp). Then, disappointed that the commission making him a full colonel at the age of 20 was postdated by three months, he resigned. "A soldier's honor," Trumbull haughtily informed Congress, "forbids the idea of giving up the least pretension of rank...