Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regarded as something installed in radio and TV sets at the factory, dropped his nine-year-old Wednesday evening TV variety hour, Arthur Godfrey and His Friends. His explanation: "I'm pooped." That still left Godfrey fans with his morning TV and radio stint and his Monday-evening Talent Scouts. In the Wednesday farewell, televised from his Virginia estate, Airman Godfrey, flying into camera in a helicopter, introduced such hearthside pals as Jocko the donkey, Petie the monkey, Goldie the palomino and a poodle named Chippie. He also read a wire from CBS TV President Merle Jones: "Please...
...Talent, Not Tactics. Cincinnati fans knew Birdie as a hustling, 14-year veteran of major-league catching. They had heard of him as a scrappy American League catcher (Detroit, Boston, Cleveland) who hated to come out second best in anything-a ball game, an argument with an umpire, a. conversation with a friend. They called him "Most Voluble Player in the Majors," but he had had only one short summer of seasoning as a minor-league manager. It was hard to believe that he knew enough tactics to manage a major-league club...
...could you sink so low in your June 10 issue to further the business profits of Los Angeles Art Dealer Martin Lowitz, a man using a lot of copycats who copy the works of another for profit and who obviously have no talent to create, or are lacking in ethical standards? FRANK O. HAMILTON Belvedere, Calif...
...their brief contacts with Polish musicians, the Clevelanders discovered men of first-rate talent, starved for news of the outside musical world. Most of them were eager to try out the American orchestra's glittering instruments. Harpist Alice Chalifoux gave away most of her reserve supply of harp strings; other Clevelanders contributed fiddle strings, mouthpieces and clarinet reeds to the Polish musicians. Cleveland's First Trumpeter Louis Davidson gave one of his $300 trumpets to Trumpeter Francisek Stockfiscz of the Katowice Philharmonia (the Cleveland Orchestra management promised to buy Davidson another). "Thank you," said Stockfiscz at a formal...
...income that I.T. & T. got from the subsidiary International Standard Electric, to zero. But in Rumania, Behn arrived in the nick of time, sold out for $13.8 million shortly before the country went over to the Nazis. In Argentina in 1946, he showed the same brilliant talent for beating a profitable retreat. Facing confiscation, he somehow maneuvered Dictator Peron into buying I.T. & T. there for $93 million...