Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montreal Negro named Oscar Peterson is one of the world's finest jazz pianists. As a touring star of the troupe called Jazz at the Philharmonic (TIME, March 2), he has fascinated audiences on three continents, won Down Beat magazine's "best piano player" poll four years in a row. Last week, at Los Angeles' Tiffany Club," he settled his huge (6 ft. 2 in., 250 Ibs.) bulk on the bench, spread his long, spatulate fingers over the keys, and gave his doting audience a typical sample of piano a la Peterson...
Shane (Paramount). A horse opera put in finest fettle by Director George Stevens; with Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jean Arthur (TIME, April...
...narrative quality that challenged the year's best fiction. Two of the best, and bestselling as well, were by Frenchmen: Maurice Herzog's thriller about the scaling of Annapurna (see CINEMA) and J. Y. Cousteau's eerily poetic description of deep-sea diving, The Silent World. Finest of the field was Charles Lindbergh's recollection of his flight across the Atlantic in 1927, The Spirit of St. Louis...
...best as well as the most tragic news in poetry was made by one man: Welshman Dylan Thomas. His Collected Poems early in the year confirmed what had long been clear: that he was the finest young poet writing in English. His death at 39 in Manhattan was a bleak reminder of the standing of his contemporaries...
...Rittenburg and Alan Howe were high-scorers for the varsity, capturing first places in the 40-yard hurdles and 600-yard dash, respectively. Rittenburg and Howe also ran in the mile relay, with Howe gaining over 15 yards in one of the finest anchor, legs seen recently...