Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third group of companies reporting last week, September quarter earnings were better than the third quarter 1957, and for some they were the best in their history...
...nickname "The Star-Spangled Baritone"), pitched a few seasons of semi-pro baseball. He still sings regularly in Las Vegas nightclubs, once explained his devotion to opera: "I'd like to be a comedian, but their material wears out so fast. Me, I've got the best writers in the world writing for me-guys like Verdi, Puccini, Bizet." For all his clowning, Merrill is a deadly serious artist who uses his peculiarly suave, resonant and firmly centered baritone to excellent effect, particularly in the roles Warren neglects-Carmen's Escamillo, The Barber Figaro, Don Carlo...
...second running of the sweepstakes this year, separate three-man juries in 22 countries (each with its own $1,000 national winner) were set up to ensure that only the best reached the finish line. Fortnight ago three top jurists (British Critic Sir Herbert Read, former Director General of French Museums Georges Salles and British Painter Morris Kestelman) were flown to Manhattan, repaired to a storage warehouse to inspect the final 114 oils and pick the grand-prize winner. "It was very quiet," chuckled Georges Salles. "We sat in three chairs like the three judges of Hell...
...Best of the middle generation is tousle-haired, big-beaked Kenneth Armitage, 42, already hailed by the New Statesman as "our most considerable sculptor since Moore." Armitage has long since left Yorkshire and set up his studio in London, but he admits that, once Yorkshire's industrial grimness gets under the skin, it cannot be washed off. Says he: "There's a hardness, a discreetness; everything is somehow bitten off and sharp, like Greece, but of course without the warmth of Greece...
...could miss for a moment that for all her arm-flinging antics, Dorothy can really play. There are those who insist that she is not the best female jazz pianist in the U.S., but while it soaked up her lyric black magic last week the crowd at the Embers would have been willing to argue...