Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after building championship teams in St. Louis and Brooklyn - the Pirates were a lackluster crew bound for nowhere. As general manager, Rickey ruthlessly started to rebuild, and, according to many fans, generally managed to ruin the franchise as he poured everything into a hunt for new, young talent. Explains Rickey augustly: "I decide I'm going to paint a picture. I have the brushes and the colors, and I paint it. People can't change it. You can do that kind of painting if you have courage." For four years Rickey managed only to smudge the canvas...
With polite finality, the Republican National Committee last week dropped the name of California's Murray M. Chotiner from its roll of 1956 campaigners. A Beverly Hills attorney with a fine talent for astute political management, Chotiner has long been a power in West Coast politics, played key roles in the successful past campaigns of such prominent California Republicans as Vice President Richard Nixon, ex-Governor Earl Warren, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland. But a Senate subcommittee's investigation into the services he performed for an assortment of clients with U.S. Government problems brought him under heavy political...
...coast of South ern California. He is supposed to be getting an education; instead he is educating the English teacher in the arts of love. He goes on in this way to become a Big Man on Campus at Stanford, then a political lawyer with a puppeteer's talent for running the show from behind the scenes. Along the way, he exploits and blows cigar smoke into the faces of a whole range of characters, from his liberal-minded wife (whom he marries for her vineyards), and a blackmail-prone professor, up to the top brass of the California...
This book will be read devoutly by the thin cult of aging Americans for whom Henry Miller was the big name in a bohemian pantheon of goofy godlets. For others it has interest as the life record of a literary anarchist of boundless charm and talent but limited good sense, the loosest member of the Lost Generation, who, now 64. has lived these twelve years past as a sage emeritus in an arty enclave at Big Sur, Calif...
Cease to Tease? Frémont had what some might consider too neat a talent for winning the friendship of useful men. First it was a lawyer who sent him to college; then it was a man who became Secretary of War; most importantly it was Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, whose daughter Jessie he married. For the illegitimate son of a woman who had run away from her husband in favor of an itinerant French schoolteacher, Frémont came a long way. As a general in the Civil War, he incurred Lincoln's distrust...