Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Week after week, the ratings of Robert Young's Emmy-winning show, Father Knows Best, demonstrated that father really does. So it was sure as apple pie that other members of the family would gather at the festive board. Already lined up this season: one homey fracas in which mom knows best, another in which grandpa takes over the Socratic chores. ¶Donna Reed (ABC, Wed., 9-9:30 p.m.), mother of two, wife of a doctor, is an inoffensive archetype of the mythical figure whose chuckleheadedness is just a cheery wrapper around an infallible intuitive wisdom. In time...
...comic felt at peace with the world, so he decided to call a boyhood pal, now an undertaker in Ohio. "This is Elwood P. Suggins," he said, choosing a phony name and his best rube twang. "My brother passed away Sunday a week, and I wonder if you could do a job." Said the undertaker: "Good God, man, Sunday a week! Where is he?" Replied the comic: "Out on the porch against the lattice. That cold spell that set in kept him harder than a carp. But then that warm spell set in, and he commenced to get pretty fleshy...
...City," Met Manager Rudolf Bing was quoted as saying in an interview last week. The only exceptions he conceded: Chicago and San Francisco. But even they, he felt, do not have long enough seasons or sufficient facilities to bring them up to the level of the Met or the best European houses...
...Budapest, crowds followed the group on the street, eyed Cellist Adam's horse-blanket sport jacket with undisguised awe. The critics pulled out their fanciest superlatives. "A wonderful experience," said one. Added a Budapest composer: "The best string quartet I have ever heard...
...grouse and quail. In Virginia and Maryland, packs of foxhounds were ready for the classic chase. Along the great flyways of the nation, ducks headed south. From California to the Carolinas, observers reported ground-game population on the increase as hunters and dogs prepared for one of the best seasons ever for the U.S.'s third (after fishing and bowling) most popular participation sport...