Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tennis title by a 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 victory over St. Louis' improving Earl ("Butch") Buchholz, 18, tag-along member of the victorious U.S. Davis Cup squad, flashed a game so crisp and deft that the experts were saying he might become the world's best...
...Grindelwald, Switzerland, two U.S. girls startled Europe's best skiers, gave an unexpected boost to U.S. chances for the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley, Calif. New Hampshire's Penny Pitou, 20, swooped down, won both the downhill and combined championships. Vermonter Betsy Snite, 20, won the giant slalom, finished second in the downhill and twelfth in the combined...
Died. Octavus Roy Cohen, 67, novelist, screenwriter, playwright and magazine writer, best known for his pre-World War II Saturday Evening Post short stories about happy-go-lucky, heavy-dialect Southern Negroes such as Florian Slappey, Lawyer Evans Chew, Marshmallow Jeepers and Epic Peters; following a stroke, in Los Angeles. Cohen also wrote for the early Amos 'n' Andy radio series...
...Heston, Claire Bloom, Inger Stevens and the berugged Brynner), 55 featured players, 100 bit-players, 12,000 calls for extras, 60,000 props-including 15 authentic pirogues, $100,000 worth of genuine antique furniture and two boxcarloads of Spanish moss and cypress trees. Not to overlook one of the best true-adventure stories in American history...
Somehow, all the blustering statistics do not add up to very much in the way of entertainment. What Wilcoxon and Quinn have produced is just a half-deflated imitation of the old man at his overblown best. The pace is often too vague or too slow, the color suave and unexciting, the costumes tasteful but somehow forgettable...