He was ghost writer for Babe Ruth, whose main talent for literary composition was the signing of his autograph.

He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.

To do this successfully required great skill and a special talent for both solemn and ribald raillery, a talent not bestowed on many persons, but one with which Milton was marked as being endowed and in which, at least in this performance, he obviously reveled.

As things happened, Morgan was installed in the Nob Hill residence of a magnate friend, whose kitchen swarmed with cooks of approved talent.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

This was a continuation of a good idea which was first tried out Saturday night when the Eddie Stack group, also local talent, went on first.

Lerner was said to have insecurity about his talent.

In March 1964, " Elverket Spelmanslag " was up against another band in a talent contest, The Hep Stars.

In 1986, in a poll conducted by GOAL magazine, he was named the most overlooked talent in hockey.

At the same time, Charlton's emergence as the country's leading young football talent was completed when he was called up to join the England squad for a British Home Championship game against Scotland at Hampden Park.

Since 2011 the town has also been host to the annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival, which was founded to celebrate Chaplin's legacy and to showcase new comic talent.

Of all of Gauss's children, Wilhelmina was said to have come closest to his talent, but she died young.

It was Renaissance in Italy, in the late Middle Ages, that started a movement of hostility to caste hierarchy, and then a shift towards ideas of equality, merit, freedoms, skepticism, innovation, judge people by their talent and not by their birth, and such concepts.

Then he was appointed Assistant Chief of Staff in charge of the new Operations Division ( which replaced WPD ) under Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, who spotted talent and promoted accordingly.

The Abbey was founded in 1904 by a group that included Yeats with the aim of promoting indigenous literary talent.

Misskelley and Echols had dropped out of high school ; however, Baldwin earned high grades and demonstrated a talent for drawing and sketching, and was encouraged by one of his teachers to study graphic design in college.

He always knew that his great talent was as an editor.

The first development of his artistic talent occurred while he was attending the sickbed of his father, when he attempted drawing to occupy the long hours of waiting.

It was only in 1919 that the exodus of talent from the country took place, and fiction film production was reduced to practically nothing.

Albert Speer notes that though Himmler seemed pedantic and insignificant on the surface, he was a good decision maker, had a talent for selecting highly competent staff, and successfully inserted the SS into every aspect of daily life.

The film performed poorly in the U. S., eclipsed ultimately by the space adventure Star Wars, though today it is highly regarded and considered the last gasp of Peckinpah's once-great talent.

He was also highly skilled in using makeup techniques, a talent he learned from his parents, who were also actors, and from his early years on stage with the Yiddish Theater, in New York.

Aykroyd's eccentric talent was recognized by others in the highly competitive SNL environment: when he first presented his famous " Super Bass-O-Matic ' 76 " sketch, a fake T. V.

He proved himself a highly promising talent in youth football and was nicknamed " Little Pele " at his local team.

Ruthlessly murderous, with a Machiavellian, highly intelligent and methodical mind, and a talent for manipulation, he can appear charming and sometimes even noble.

While Glinka considered Balakirev's compositional technique defective ( there were as yet no music textbooks in Russian and Balakirev's German was barely adequate ), he thought highly of his talent, encouraging him to take up music as a career.

The doyen of English critics, Ernest Newman, praised it highly: " here is a composer with real talent for opera ... in Mr. Priestley he has been fortunate enough to find an English Boito ", but generally it received a polite rather than a rapturous reception.

Monday night games early in the season are often highly anticipated since records are new, teams usually are showcasing fresh talent and potential, and storylines coming into the season are often played out as fans try to see if these hyped teams are up to form.

* Identify pools of talent that could potentially fill and perform highly in key roles

However, Cantor's relentless attention to his own earnings in order to avoid the poverty he knew growing up caused him to use his writing talent, quickly building a new bank account with his highly popular, bestselling books of humor and cartoons about his experience, Caught Short!

He was seemingly very drunk on the Michael Aspel chat show, to many highly entertaining, to others a waste of a great acting talent.

The well-known poet Edmund Blunden was his tutor at Merton, and regarded his poetic talent highly.

It was highly believed teams would take advantage of this change, in increasing signings of former NFL and NFL Europe players rather than searching for existing talent already in the AFL.

Ó Conaire became something of a mythical figure in Irish literary folklore because of his highly individual talent and engaging personality.

However, the Major Leagues are highly competitive, and talent distribution in baseball does not resemble the traditional " bell curve " of a normal distribution ; rather, the majority of players fall within the category of " below-average " or worse.

He continues to be active as a voice talent for numerous local and national radio and television commercials ; as of 2010, he hosts the highly acclaimed radio series, " Biography Arkansas " segment for KUAR radio, and was honored by a retrospective of his television and broadcasting career by the Little Rock Central Library System, which showcased his work in television and radio.

Fiorina immediately became a highly visible chief executive, and remained so throughout her tenure at the company with a vast array of engineering talent at her disposal.

The once highly rated Nitro became deprived of wrestlers, with its most capable young stars signing with the WWF and its current roster of talent being constantly misused.

Together, the pair developed highly influential radio programming strategies and tactics, as well as working with future " Boss Jocks " ( their new name for on-air radio talent ).

*“ Each group of parents strongly encouraged their children ’ s development in a particularly highly approved talent field ( related to the parents ’ own “ special interests ”) and gave much less support to other possible talent fields and activities .”

His natural musical talent was highly thought of by, among others, Modest Mussorgsky, and during the 1870s he became associated with the group of composers known as The Mighty Handful.

His books are both praised and criticized for their informal, conversational style, but he is routinely credited by both fan and critic as having a talent for communicating difficult, highly abstract concepts in ways that are accessible to the lay science reader.