Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sweater. Mary McCarthy has marked most stages of her life with a book or story or critical essay-not to mention several thousand yards of the brightest conversation ever to come from a pretty woman's lips. Her first book, The Company She Keeps (1942), told of a girl who suffers guilt by association of one kind or another with a Yale man, an art dealer, and, most painfully-because the fellow was no intellectual-in a Pullman compartment with a man in a Brooks Brothers shirt. The Oasis (1949) was a sailor's farewell to the remnants...
...into the antic proceedings; Danny Thomas is still pumping up a smidgeon of wit through 30 minutes of sentimental goo, while Schoolmarm Eve Arden in Our Miss Brooks has switched from public high to private elementary school without making any great change in the standard cast or plot. The brightest of the new situation shows is You'll Never Get Rich, starring Funnyman Phil Silvers as an Army top sergeant with a heart of solid larceny. Silvers makes life in the armed forces seem like a rainbow-colored version of a goldbricker's dream...
...Luke Carroll, onetime Trib Chicago correspondent. Close to a dozen other staffers, including John ("Tex") O'Reilly, Trib nature columnist and former war correspondent, have also recently left. By far the biggest loss to the Trib will be felt later this month, when the news staff's brightest star, Correspondent Homer Bigart, 47, two-time (1946, 1951) Pulitzer Prizewinner, moves over to the New York Times. Bigart, who had never worked for any other paper in 27 years as a newsman, admitted that he had "sweated blood" over the decision. Said an old friend: "Homer's resigning...
...Bunny soccer outlook is the brightest in the league, with almost every member of last year's title winning team returning. In touch-football, Dave Segal, a former Leverett tackle star, appears the best prospect...
...teacher of gifted children need not be as bright as her brightest student, but she must be sympathetic and skillful in guiding the selection of studies...