Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work for the most gifted moviemaker in Germany. Helmut (The Devil's General) Käutner. In The Last Bridge, cast as a woman doctor in wartime, she gave a memorably jolting performance, and in 1954, at the Cannes film festival, Maria was voted the year's best actress. Overnight she had a world reputation, and the films that followed impressively sustained...
...thinning hair and murmurs, "Horst, am I pretty?" But Horst plays glum. One day she gurgled: "Guess what we're having for dinner-your favorite dish!" And Horst replied: "So what? You act as if you'd cooked it." At such times, Maria murmurs soothingly, in the best tradition of the German Hausjrau: "Ach, Horst...
...many divisions together was Frank Pace, 45, onetime U.S. Budget Director and Secretary of the Army. Even Madison Avenue admen, whose accounts were swimming back and forth like salmon, changed their lures. At year's end Ben C. Duffy, president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn and probably the best-liked man along Madison Avenue, decided to retire after a long illness. His heir: Charles H. Brower. 56, a top idea man, who lost the $8 million Revlon account in September, said he would "just go out and get eight new $1,000,000 accounts," has already caught...
...their sides trued to the four cardinal directions. Using the Egyptian year, Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. made the Julian calendar standard throughout the Roman world. To these scientific measurements, later calendar makers added an overburden of myth, magic and homely folklore with advice so complete that even the best day for cutting nails and hair was indicated...
...News obliged. True to the newsman's oft-violated creed that newspapermen do not make news, tall, mustached (and sometimes bearded) Lowell Limpus did not mention in his obit many of his best works, such as his 1932 series on Al Capone's flossy life in the Atlanta Penitentiary. Of Limpus, Limpus wrote...