Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coronation Day, reflecting the new tranquillity, the lush green valley surrounding the capital shimmered with fresh color. Hibiscus and gardenias vied with the brilliant new paint on farmers' houses that looked like huge, multi-flavored icecream cones. Here and there shone the glint of newly gilded brass gods, while ringed all around were the ghostly peaks of the high Himalayas. In the midst of it all, Coronation Guest Lowell Thomas, in proper tails, darted about directing a crew of Cinerama cameramen...
...York "Fed" for 15 years, became known as the most powerful of the regional chiefs and a frequent dissenter from the Washington Board's policy. He resigned because of health (stomach ulcer). Successor Hayes, who calls himself "deplorably obscure," is described by his banker peers as brilliant, is the first president to come from outside the big bank's ranks since it opened for business in 1914. Son of a Cornell University scholar, Hayes got his degree and a Phi Beta Kappa key at Yale ('30), spent a year at Harvard Business School, wound up his academic...
Died. Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, 79, brilliant, Bavarian-born boss of the German army that shattered France's Maginot Line in 1940, sometime (1941-42) commander of the Nazi forces on Russia's northern front, coruscant author (Defense, Chronicle of the Leeb Family); after long illness; in Augsburg, Germany. One of Hitler's most trusted theoreticians, Aristocrat Leeb finally broke with the Fuhrer over Russian campaign strategy, retired...
...author tosses her symbols with a conjurer's cynical eye for the audience. The book is brilliant in detail, lit by a woman's sharp eye for gesture and the shape and condition of others' clothes and faces. In between the dilemmas and existentialist mazes, there is a great tragicomic talent at work, and readers who fail to take a pass or two at Murdoch's Minotaur will miss some fine and frenzied...
...Baker, a pudge-pot from Pittsburgh, Johnny Holman a clown from Chicago, are the three top contenders, and a good kangaroo ought to be able to outwit any one of them for the title. Aside from Moore, the only real fighter with the skill to take over is another brilliant, but young (21), light heavyweight named Floyd Patterson. An elimination tournament to name the new heavyweight champion may well end with light heavyweights Moore and Patterson boxing for the crown...