Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have finished reading your Jack Paar story and regard it as the best printed article of 1958. Of course, you had one of the country's best comedians for a subject. Your newest section-Show Business-has also won my heartiest approval. Keep up the good work...
MADISON AVENUE calls it "the Filter Derby." U.S. Congressman John A. Blatnik calls it "a lot of hot air." In the hotly competitive tobacco industry, the claims fly thick and fast, with half the firms advertising that their filter fliters best of all. To settle the argument, the Federal Trade Commission wants a single, standard test for all filters. Meanwhile, for what the public, the companies, the U.S. Congress thinks, see BUSINESS ESSAY, Those Cigarette Claims...
...this lack of research or lack of progress?" asked Saltonstall, a senior member of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee chaired by Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson. "Does this indicate that we are headed for second best in 1960 or 1964? So let us not sell ourselves short ... There is a great deal of difference between making a judgment based on estimates of what we think the Soviets are doing and making a judgment based on what we know we are doing . . . We shall never be the underdog if we keep...
...first book, the madwoman of Beekman Place was getting on toward 60 and past her best years (although she would not have admitted it). Clearly Author Dennis (real name: Edward Everett Tanner III) had to backtrack and find a more youthful Mame. Deftly he discovered a hitherto overlooked interlude. It seems that between the time Mame's nephew Patrick was kicked out of St. Boniface Academy in Apathy, Mass. and the time he entered college and the brawny embrace of Bubbles, the waitress, there was a broadening period of travel...
...Perse never allows the hope of purification and renewal to gutter out. In Anabasis (1924), his best-known work, partly thanks to an excellent translation by T.S. Eliot, Perse tells of the seedtime of history. Man, the nomad, ranges out over the deserts of the East, "Ploughland of dream." He raises and then razes a city. In Winds (1946), great storms sweep across Europe, "leaving us in their wake, Men of straw in the year of straw." The restless hero finds himself in the West as Perse conjures up the discovery and dynamism of America-"the great expresses . . . with their...