Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SCHUMANN: DICHTERLIEBE AND LIEDERKREIS (Deutsche Grammophon). One of the very finest lieder recordings since the war. The artist's vocal beauty, technique, phrasing, intelligence and imagination combine to magnify Schumann's songs and Heine's words. The singer, of course, is Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau...
...semifinals, Santana met Davidson, whose victory over Emerson gave his game quite a charge. For nearly three hours, he and Santana slashed through a grueling 6-2, 4-6, 9-7, 3-6, 7-5 match that pressed Santana into some of the finest shotmaking seen at Wimbledon in years. The best, that is, until Santana took on Ralston in the finals. Playing impeccable placement tennis, alternating with spins, drops, and some beautifully surgical work at the net, Santana made virtually no mistakes. Ralston, who played brilliantly enough himself, did make mistakes, such as double-faulting nine times. One hour...
Died. Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland, 72, MacArthur's World War II chief of staff who, as his commander's alter ego, shared the darkest and finest hours-from the bitter Corregidor retreat in 1942 to the final surrender ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in September 1945; after a long illness; in Washington...
...newcomer to the role. Though still a relatively young man, he has been playing Falstaff off and on for close to twenty years. Even as a Harvard sophomore (see photo) he was highly acclaimed for his portrayal, and W.H. Auden was not the only one to rate it the finest he had even seen...
...chairman of Chicago's Consolidated Foods Corp. ought to be exuberant. His art collection, mostly impressionist and postimpressionist, embraces "100 very, very good paintings and 500 fun ones," and his display of pre-Columbian artifacts at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is one of the world's finest. Corporately, Consolidated Foods last week agreed to acquire, for $3,400,000 in stock, Idaho Frozen Foods, Inc., a $5,000,000-a-year processor of frozen-potato products. This will be Consolidated's second acquisition in 1966 (the other: E. Kahn's Sons of Cincinnati, a meat...