Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canadiens alone seemed unimpressed by Big-Time Talker Imlach, whipped in their first goal in the first game just 36 seconds after the face-off. With Superstars Jean Beliveau and Maurice Richard injured, the Canadiens were forced to hustle, had still enough spare talent to wrap up the series in five games. But for Toronto fans, it was almost thrill enough to be the losers...
Scholar Waterhouse, a chunky, sandy-haired young man, admits to a complete lack of talent in art and athletics but gets straight A's in everything else. Physics Teacher Morris Hoffman says the boy is "lightning fast in his thinking; a test that takes most students 40 minutes is a five-to-ten-minute affair for Bill. He never had a formal biology course, and quite a bit of the general aptitude tests are based on biology. He said, 'Oh, I got a book and read it.' He can see right to the crux of a matter...
...much of the credit for the young scholar's enormous feat of learning must go to Denver's top-ranked school system. Justin Brierly, coordinator of college counseling for Denver schools, summed it up in a way that other schoolmen might well note: "Bill had the natural talent, and our system has two things to offer: early detection of gifted students and a suitable and intensified program to provide them with full development...
...Baker wants students to do is "get acquainted with their own minds-which, incidentally, very few people do during a lifetime." The drill team quality of the calisthenics is deceptive. Says a colleague: "His respect for the individual mind is infinite. He has the uncanny ability to see some talent in just about every student, and he will do almost anything to develop...
Politics was not the only problem that ever bothered Larry Adler. For a long time there was the matter of talent. The son of a Baltimore plumber, he was tossed out of the Peabody School of Music in short order. Diagnosis: a tin ear. He was 13 when he read that the Baltimore Sun was sponsoring a harmonica contest. He spent three weeks teaching himself to play, won, and wasted little time heading for New York...