Word: drawer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judge by last year's furore over Ballerina Alicia Markova, she was the only occupant of ballet's top drawer. Last week the other occupant was getting some of her due. Crowds jammed Manhattan's City Center to see Alexandra Danilova, last of Diaghilev's prima ballerinas, as the Street Dancer in Le Beau Danube and the Queen in Swan Lake...
Most of summer radio's other hopefuls were drooping on the vines, too. When the high-priced September to May regulars (Jack Benny, Bob Hope, et al) went vacationing, their topflight writers and producers went too. Summer's second-drawer big names had second-drawer scripts. Some of the resulting bigger busts...
Mass & Energy. In 1896 Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity, which is the spontaneous release of atomic energy by certain heavy metals. Becquerel had some photographic plates lying in a dark drawer near a bit of uranium; he found the plates lightstruck. His researches led to the discovery of radium by Pierre and Marie Curie, and it was by using radium for cancer therapy that man first harnessed atomic energy to his own ends...
...post in Europe (see INTERNATIONAL). Laurence Steinhardt is a lawyer, economist and author. As ambassador to Russia (193941), he went through the blitz in Moscow, signed the first Lend-Lease agreement with the Russians. He likes them and they like him. In Washington, he is rated as a top-drawer U.S. diplomat...
Scanty Evidence. In Long Beach, Calif., Joan Morton won a divorce after testify ing that her jealous husband flew off the handle when his laundry erred and he discovered a pair of men's shorts four sizes too big for him in his own dresser drawer...