Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowded Capitol committee room glittered with the brightest U.S. brass as the Senate Appropriations Committee sat down for private hearings on the nation's military needs. Suddenly, the door popped open and Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, the Republican minority leader, stuck his greying head inside. "Hold up a minute," he shouted. Then Ken Wherry politely stood back while 30 hushed and awed ladies tiptoed in. "These are good Nebraska girls," explained Wherry as the ladies giggled. "I wanted them to see this great committee." One by one Chairman Kenneth McKellar, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Admiral Forrest Sherman...
...superintendent of schools in a New England industrial town not long ago began to worry about the small number of his students who continued on to college. The superintendent asked one of his brightest students why he was going to work instead. Said the boy, with startling directness: "You went on to college, and look what happened to you! I'm going into a factory and really make some money...
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...Ticket to Tomahawk (20th Century-Fox) takes the makings of a western railroading epic and turns them into one of the season's brightest comedies. Filmed in the mountains of Colorado, but taking only the most mischievous view of what may actually have happened there in 1876, the Technicolored movie recounts the adventures of a narrow-gauge ten-wheeler on its first run into the Rockies...
...Police Gazette reporter. Eddle Albert, as Horace Miller, though not outstanding in general, sings "A Little Fish in a Big Pond" with a fine hoarse staccato. Patricia Hammerlee, the female lead in the ballet troupe, steals nearly every dancing scene with an unusual mastery of comic ballet; the brightest spot in the first act is her routine in the Paris park scene...