Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assignment to Vienna-and a seat in the world's most exciting press box. As Europe sputtered toward war, Vienna became a vantage point from which U.S. correspondents shaped a new tradition of alert, informed foreign reporting that gave readers back home the world's best European coverage. From such resident and visiting firemen as the New York Evening Post's Dorothy Thompson. I.N.S.'s late H. R. Knickerbocker (who once interviewed Stalin's mother), the Chicago Tribune's William (Berlin Diary) Shirer, and Author Sheean, Correspondent Gunther busily soaked up lore and legends...
...greeting each guest without help, though he almost had to rub noses before he could recognize them. It was a typical gesture. Anything but the traditionally tough, cynical newsman, Gunther fairly quivers with delight at meeting people, deeply craves their approval. Says one intimate: "He has no acquaintances-only best friends...
Gunther's best friends, who tend to be conspicuously witty or pretty, run a stellar range from Addams, Charles, to Zorina, Vera. To Book-of-the-Month Club Judge John Mason Brown, "John's foible isn't name-dropping, it's name-wonder. He's never got over the mica that's in names. He has a child's sense of giving a party, a fairyland belief in celebrities." One fairyland fable who slips frequently in and out of the house on East 62nd Street is Greta Garbo, the "G.G." to whom John...
...ever play unless you think you have the best hand or the makings of one. Don't become interested in second-best hands...
...association and brain-trainery all rolled into one? Are there no other public agencies in our town that might not minister to some of those needs? Do not ask whether a home economics course is necessary, but rather ask this: Is ours the kind of society where the girls best learn from their mothers? Must we ask the school to offer courses in driver training, or could the same end be accomplished simply by asking the local constables to be more choosy in the granting of drivers' licenses? What, exactly, is our school...