Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strategic Air Command to the Pentagon as Air Force Vice Chief of Staff set off an Air Force job-switching chain reaction. New top commands posted last week paraded a battle-seasoned new team of generals, showing both LeMay's increasing influence and the wealth of U.S. air talent. Chief among them...
...theory, Engle's system of teaching poets is simple. "We believe that if you begin with a person who has talent, you can make a better poet faster by exposing him to real criticism and putting him in contact with a community of poets." After a rugged session in the converted barren barrack that houses the workshop, a few students have felt like quitting. But most recognize the need for criticism. "You can't go on showing your poems to your Uncle Louis all your life," shrugs Phil Levine, 29, who has cracked the Chicago Review. Engle...
...ever since he took over Texas baseball in 1940. Rival coaches have long since ceased to listen to his plaints. But Bibb spoke for them all last week when he attacked the raiders-the fast-talking big-league "bird dogs" who scout college campuses for the least sign of talent, who use the lure of a pro contract to bargain for an athlete's amateur standing...
...Jackson and Boston Manager Pinky Higgins, and Bibb himself went to the Chicago White Sox directly from the Texas campus in 1920. A keg-shaped, hard-hitting outfielder, he stayed in the majors for twelve years, averaged .312 at bat. But today, says Bibb, many boys with too little talent are tempted to sign baseball contracts and quit school. The Kansas City Athletics, for example, have signed 322 collegians since 1955-but igo have already been released, and only 17 are rated as likely prospects. College authorities estimate that, of the students who sign baseball contracts, 75% never...
...overwhelming evidence indicates that professional baseball is more interested in retarding the growth and development of the college game." Big-league scouts wave fat bonuses at high-school stars who might otherwise be tempted to take advantage of an athletic scholarship. College crowds, already dwindling for lack of talent in the field, stay home on spring afternoons to watch major-league television. Sooner or later, all the troubles of the college game are blamed on the big leagues...