Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more new teachers a year between now and 1959 would absorb about half the total recipients of bachelor degrees in that period. In view of the demands for college-trained personnel in industry, in Government service, in science and in the other professions, such a diversion of talent is not likely or desirable...
Prowl for Talent. What is behind the defection? One cause, says Williams, is that many states have been suffering from drought. "Any young man who's been out in that for six or seven years is not going to stay in that kind of business." While farm life seems all "drudgery and hardship," industry is offering beginning salaries to college graduates too tempting to refuse. But the most important factor is that few boys and girls realize that agriculture has become a field that needs highly trained technicians...
...Nebraska's College of Agriculture is thinking of sending out a special recruiting exhibit to high schools. Iowa State College has a new scholarship program that is specifically aimed at bright agriculture students. As never before, the nation's agricultural schools are on the prowl for talent...
...Story. In the face of the TV screen, the newspapers' old running story of the full convention became somewhat less important (as the newspaper's play-by-play of the baseball game has become unimportant). The daily press threw new energy and new talent into exploring the offbeat byways of color and anecdote as well as the lofty heights of analysis and interpretation. Ironically, some of the best punditry came not from Chicago but from Washington, where Columnist Walter Lippmann watched the convention on TV. Some of the sidebars ran to outlandish trivia, e.g., the contents of Adlai...
John O'Hara's talent as a novelist runs to stenographic reporting and, as any reader of his bestselling Ten North Frederick knows, he reports most expertly on Pennsylvania small towns whose very ordinary people all seem to lead extraordinary sex lives. O'Hara fans can now get, between hard covers, one of his minor magazine stories that proves that he can exercise his talent with his left hand. It also proves that he can suppress-at least for the space of 64 pages-his obsessive preoccupation with...