Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whitman, Simon & Schuster, Grosset & Dunlap), whose millions of books are pushed through supermarkets, chain stores, drugstores, Howard Johnson restaurants, newsstands, toy stores and mail-order houses. Their authors are either long dead (and their work, therefore, in the public domain) or journeyman writers, many of them organized in large talent pools. Ideas are assigned, stories written and rewritten by teams of writers and editors, often recalling the Hollywood assembly lines...
...double parody of dramatic readings and Mickey Spillane utilizes an obvious talent for exaggeration. "I passed this kid sucking a lollipop. Don Brown dead, and him sucking a lollipop. I rammed it down his throat. I hate injustice...
...would like to concentrate more of its resources on antisubmarine defense, thinks France could better spend its money on plugging one of the many gaps in NATO's conventional defenses than on the wasteful French A-bomb program (TIME, Dec. 9). Britain also wants greater pooling of scientific talent. "The Germans are free to devote 95% of their technological know-how to their export drive while we have 70% of ours tied up on defense work," they complain...
...poke in the ribs from Guest Star Jimmy Durante, but Dinah's ham bone was up to it; gasping with laughter, she bounced back to make it seem a small bonus in an hour of unpremeditated fun. Week to week, just such spontaneity fuses with a haunting vocal talent to make blonde (since 1944) Dinah Shore the nicest musical treat...
Purpose & Power. Crow's neatly proportioned (6 ft. 2 in., 214 lbs.) frame surrounds awesome talent. His choppy, hustling stride sheds tacklers; he is a vicious blocker and a shrewd, swift safety man. On offense or defense, his specialty is hitting opponents with skill, purpose and power. Last year, when Tackle Bobby Lockett teamed up with End John Tracey to bring down Texas Christian's great Halfback Jim Swink, Crow came up to "secure" the tackle, as the football euphemism goes. He knocked both Swink and Tracey goggle-eyed, and Tackle Lockett was belted right...