Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well as I used to ... The feel for a song isn't there, the desire to sing, to be in action-and when this is absent, so is the style." Modest Millionaire Crosby was not upset by prospects of oblivion. "Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin that it's almost opaque over a quite unbelievable term of years-30 of them actually...
Never a Chair. Such a pace may seem too much for one man, but wiry Conductor von Karajan thrives on it. His secret: a field marshal's talent for delegating authority. He maintains secretarial teams or artistic aides in Berlin, Vienna and Milan, employs a roving personal secretary named André Mattoni, who functions as his chief of staff. His wife Anita, herself an effective staff member, lives at their Austrian villa not far from Innsbruck...
...creaky stable of professional monkeyshiners last week came a fresh new talent: a rumpled, dumpling-shaped (5 ft. 6 in., 220 lbs.) buffoon named Buddy Hackett. The show: a half-hour comedy series called Stanley (Mon. 8:30 p.m., NBC), the only live situation comedy of the new season. For the next 30 weeks, Comedian Hackett, with his butterball face, will play a newsstand proprietor in a Manhattan hotel lobby and be manhandled like pully-candy by some expert Runyonesque musclemen. With better help from his comedy writers, he should help make the new season more...
...changeover cost Ford $209 million, "more money than any other introduction in our history," said Henry Ford II last week. "It is the first car in which we have been able to embody all the advantages of our new facilities and the talent of our new management team...
...deficit during the first seven months of 1956 v. $49 million surplus last year. Financiers argue that France should devalue its franc (officially 350 to the dollar, actually 405 and up) to boost exports, and take drastic steps to clean economic house. But France so far has shown little talent for house cleaning. How long will West Germany wait for France and Britain to put their financial houses in order? As German trade and financial security grows stronger, the situation will only get worse. Eventually, unless something is done soon, West Germany may be forced to go it alone, free...