Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blame the draft for Army "eight balls." The draft is the only source of intelligence the Army has. Most Army regulars will quickly admit that they stay in 'the Army because they couldn't make a living on the outside. The Air Force took the only administrative talent in the military and got out while the going was good. The army is just an eight-ball outfit...
...Buddha-faced, butcher-fisted Jim Richardson seemed by talent and temperament to have been a natural-born Hearst-man, he also had the luck to land in Los Angeles in the headiest heyday of the city and of Hearst newspapering. Hired at 19 by Hearst's old Los Angeles Herald (for $7.50 a week). Canadian-born Richardson shrewdly plied the creed he learned as a cub on the old Winnipeg Telegram: "Walk like a newspaperman...
...Bloody Angle. Jimmy Richardson was always bored by news of government and politics and was convinced that readers were, too. "Unless there's a bloody angle to it," says one longtime staffer, "Jim just don't care." His particular talent, in the '40s and early '50s, was to make it seem as if bodies in trunks were arriving hourly at Union Station-and when one did, Richardson expected every staffer to hop on the story as if the next body might be his own. When Richardson himself scored the biggest local beat of the decade...
...Ideally, however, this happy combination never takes place," Johnston said. "What inevitably happens is a compromise. The director never gets the ideal cast, so the play has to be tailored to fit the existing one. The great actor seldom gets the role he has talent to interpret, or even a chance to visualize the role except in terms of his own part...
Gervasi and Lumbard each directed two of the bits; in this, as in the acting, the Players have been fortunate to assemble well-applied talent...