Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never seen a Russian ballet, caught much of its fascination from Nijinsky, the mad dancer's biography written by his Hungarian wife Romola, who blames her husband's insanity on the late great Serge Diaghilev (TIME, March 19). Last week Arnold L. Haskell, Britain's ablest dance critic, who knew both Diaghilev and Madame Nijinsky, recorded his own ballet enthusiasms.* Dancers in Colonel Vassily de Basil's Monte Carlo Ballet Russe know Author Haskell as a bubbling, bald little man who trails them from town to town, settles many a backstage dispute, writes occasional reviews...
Every World Series produces oddities and heroes. Of all the oddities thrown into the eye of the U. S. public last week, none was stranger than the Deans. Ablest pitchers of the year, they enabled St. Louis to win the pennant by winning a total of 49 games. In St. Louis last summer, Jerome Dean was such a celebrity that when he was pitching the team's advertisements said: "Dizzy Dean in person." Brother Paul Dean three weeks ago pitched the National League's first no-hit game in five years. A third brother Elmer ("Goober") Dean sold peanuts...
Most of last month Vincent Astor and Raymond Moley shuttled between Hyde Park and Manhattan. To the President, his richest friend and his ablest adviser brought word that Business was developing a bad case of nerves at the New Deal's uncertainties. Back in town Editor Moley wrote inspired reassurances in Today and Mr. Astor closeted himself with one tycoon after another to relate how things were going to come out all right in the end. The biggest news that Mr. Astor brought back from the throne room was that President Roosevelt was going to make Bernard Mannes ("Bernie...
...notable for his self-dedication to the job of serious argument: James Paul ("Jimmy") Warburg, 38, author, smart son of a smart father, librettist husband of a tuneful wife, vice chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co. Last week in Buffalo, Jimmy War burg concluded, with these words, the ablest of his many speeches...
...next ten years the bylines of the Herricks were familiar to the Tribune's 770,000 readers. John, quiet, studious-looking, became a crack member of the paper's Washington bureau, lately covering the Senate. Genevieve ("Geno") developed into one of the ablest women reporters at the Capital. When Mrs. Roosevelt moved into the White House and began holding weekly press conferences, "Geno's" job became that much more important...