Word: choicest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houghton's oddest and choicest possessions is its theater collection, a diverse conglomeration of play manuscripts, autographs, playbills--even a clipping file on contemporary screen and stage stars. The collection's size and completeness make it a valuable source of theatrical information: Cornelia Otis Skinner did research for her book "Family Circle" there; queries along the lines of "should Macbeth be played in kilts" are always coming in. A movie company once called up from Hollywood to find out whether Jenny Lind had ever sung in some saloon in Tombstone, Arizona. (She hadn...
...small, green-carpeted room of San Francisco's Bank of America, one of the biggest sugar deals in West Coast history was quietly sealed. Last week, for $5,250,000, husky, handsome Charles Edouard de Bretteville, 36, and associates announced that they had picked up the choicest pieces of the disintegrating J.D. & A.B. Spreckels companies, a sprawling empire founded by bearded Claus Spreckels in 1863, which once held some 50 companies worth $60 million...
When he was 16, folks wagged their heads mournfully and predicted that Benjamin would break his father. But Horace Jones, a covered-wagon man who got the choicest piece of land in northwestern Missouri, would take a lot of breaking. A shrewd, hard-bitten Welshman, he founded the town of Parnell, ran the Parnell bank, and knew more about raising cattle than anybody in Nodaway County. He wanted Ben to become a banker, but that wasn't in the cards...
Hollywood's leading citizens, aglitter and atwitter one evening last week in the little Academy Award Theater, gulped when they heard the announcement. To Britain, target of many a ripe tomato for its quotas on U.S. films, went the choicest plum of U.S. filmdom: the Oscar for the year's best picture. The winner: J. Arthur Rank's Hamlet (TIME, June...
While the man in the street curses and stumbles in the slush, the ski team is getting ready to move into its annual period of between-term activity on New England's choicest slopes...