Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...natives with equal success. Wealthy women and celebrities flocked to her salon (among her clientele: Gertrude Lawrence, Clare Boothe Luce, Barbara Hutton, the Duchess of Windsor, Joan Crawford). Although several famed designers learned their craft in her workrooms, Hattie was never a designer in the strict sense. Her talent was for blue-penciling gowns, like an editor, and her critical decisions ("No, no, that sleeve is out I") were almost always right. The Carnegie foundation for a wardrobe-the "little Carnegie suit" became a basic garment for well-dressed women, and was later translated by Hattie into the WAC uniform...
...Florida former (1949-53) Governor Fuller Warren, 50, decided to run again despite his persistent denials of renewed political ambition. Said he: "I feel that the Almighty endowed me with the talent to govern this state." His likely chief opponent: able Governor LeRoy Collins (TIME, Dec. 19), who is filling the unexpired term of the late Governor Dan McCarty and is waiting only for a state Supreme Court decision to endow him with authority to run again under Florida's law forbidding a governor to succeed himself...
Until recently, most such talent searches had been too little and too late. There is no infallible universal testing device to measure potential, and even where useful devices exist, they are seldom applied before the student's attitude has been irrevocably...
Testing does not make very good publicity for the inrustrialists who are looking for talent, and educators are apparently too concerned with their present insolvency to inaugurate new programs. The only agency which can apparently undertake such a program is the Federal government. It seems likely that Washington would use its money better if, as well as building new schools, they tried to get students to do something in the old ones...
Many of these new devices--especially radio and television equipment--grew out of military research conducted at M.I.T. during the war. While some research at the Institute is specifically directed toward industrial development, today the national defense program has requistioned most of M.I.T.'s available talent. Even basic research, in its military applications, has become highly important for defense...