Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bird Man of Alcatraz. Burt Lancaster gives his finest performance as Robert F. Stroud, a murderer who became an ornithologist while in solitary confinement for 43 years...
...built 226 of them, owns two dozen large buildings from his home town, Chicago, to San Francisco. Last week, moved by San Francisco sentimentalism as much as desire for profit, he bought the famed Hotel Mark Hopkins for $12 million. "I think," says Lurie, "it's the finest hotel in the world." ?A husky Virginian who knows his way around Washington as well as Wall Street, Carter Burgess, 45, last week moved up from the presidency to the chairmanship of widely diversified American Machine & Foundry Co., succeeding Morehead Patterson, who died fortnight ago. His acquaintance with both places should...
...choirs under Vienna's leading conductors. Weingartner hired him as chorus master of the Volksoper when he was only 18, and by his mid-20s, when he was appointed music director of the Hoftheater in Karlsruhe, he was already building a reputation as one of Europe's finest opera conductors. For three wartime years (1942-45), he labored in a pickle factory; at war's end he virtually rebuilt the musical life of Vienna by pulling together the Staatsoper and the Vienna Philharmonic...
Bird Man of Alcatraz. One of the strangest cases in U.S. penal history is that of Robert F. Stroud, who spent 43 years in solitary confinement. As the convict murderer who became a bird expert behind bars, Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career...
...section. Pre-Med Student Gordon A. Fuqua, 21, umpires softball games between the Vice Lords and the Egyptian Cobras, who might otherwise be rumbling in a Lawndale alley. Says Gordon: "What I'm doing this summer is making me a better doctor than if I went to the finest medical school...