Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just read your cover story on Andrew Wyeth. Congratulations! I respect him as the finest fine artist...
...special holiday treat a major painting never shown before in the U.S. This year's choice is one of the great treasures of the Staatliche Museen in West Berlin: Albrecht Altdorfer's The Adoration of the Shepherds. Painted between 1518 and 1520, it is one of the finest specimens of the brilliant interplay of night and light at which this late-Renaissance German excelled. Through...
...four, stuck with stamps, and by the time he reached young manhood, was so wrapped up in perforations and first-day covers that he gave up an electrical engineering career to become a fulltime, professional philatelist. In the next 50 years, he built one of the finest U.S. collections of postage stamps ever assembled. He specialized in blocks of rare stamps-four or more stamps still connected by original perforation. There was a block of 16 50 stamps dating from 1847 (the first regular postal issue in the U.S.) in mint (uncanceled) condition, valued at $24,000, and several blocks...
Furthermore, Betancourt took his military chiefs into his political confidence. They were consulted on opposition to Castro, petroleum policy and other executive decisions. When his regime was subjected to terrorist attacks and a rightist assassination plot, the armed forces backed him all the way. The military's finest hour came in the 1962 uprising of a small group of marines and Red-led civilians at the Puerto Cabello naval base. The air force mounted blazing air attacks, and loyal troops crushed the rebels in vicious street fighting that cost 300 casualties...
...this may have been type casting's finest hour, for 51-year-old Hugh Griffith is a laughing, brawling, roistering Welshman who lives on 13 acres in Warwickshire, where he and his wife raise dogs, hay, a cow and donkeys. For lunch he munches double brandies, and when he does a drunk scene-as in his new movie, The Bargee, in which he plays a lock tender on a canal-he warms up with bolt after bolt of black velvet (champagne and stout). "Did they think I could fake it with bloody tea?" he asks. Almost by obvious right...