Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tackle: "I really hit him hard-bounced him back. It would have stopped anyone else, but not Jimmy. He took off again to the right and ran 70 yards to a touchdown as if nothing had happened." Onetime Philadelphia Coach Earle ("Greasy") Neale says: "He's the best back in the history of pro football...
...draft, built a new ground offense around Brown. Last year Jimmy led the league in ground-gaining, was runaway choice for rookie of the year. This year, with Rookie Speedster Bobby Mitchell operating at halfback to keep the defense spread to cover an outside threat, Cleveland has the best ground game the pro league has seen in years...
Last week Fullback Brown came face to face with the New-York Giants, best defensive team in the league...
...meetings and hearing rooms, watching gestures, listening to sounds, painting mental pictures. She writes swiftly and well, turns out some of the most perceptive, pungent copy in Washington, D.C. Says U.P.I. Bureau Chief Lyle Wilson of the Washington Star's Mary McGrory: "Mary is the tops-the best I've ever seen. Her stuff stands up next day; it has survival value...
...Worth. Texas has more banks than any other state: 968 with total deposits of $10.4 billion, combined resources of $11.6 billion. Texas bankers succeed by fighting for business like warring supermarket operators on a Saturday afternoon -while also wearing Homburg hats and speaking in muted tones. The man who best combines such Texas talents is taut, wiry, fiercely competitive Fred F. Florence, 67, head of Dallas' Republic National Bank, who for years has been locked in an epic duel with Dallas' First National Bank. The prize: the title of No. 1 bank in Texas...