Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's rebounding was a decisive factor in the upset. At times Princeton had a height advantage of nearly three inches per man, but the Crimson held a 41-39 edge in rebounding. Barry Williams played one of the finest games of his career, grabbing 16 rebounds and scoring 15 points...
...laundry; his florist bill ran to $20,000. He personally inspected all the restaurant's provisions, was so scrupulous about caviar, for instance, that he once opened seven jars in a row before finding one that he considered satisfactory. He insisted on hand-dried Baccarat glasses and the finest wines, although he would also serve a bottle of milk to lohn F. Kennedy in a silver ice bucket as if it were champagne...
...idea of a national theater had been kicking around for more than a century. But in 1962, Olivier was given the Old Vic theater on the south bank of the Thames and an annual grant of $364,000. He has since made it one of the finest stage companies in the world. Among its recent productions: Olivier's first Othello, Coward's Hayfever, Brecht's Mother Courage. Peter Hall was involved in a similar buskin-strap operation on the Royal Shakespeare Company. Before he took over in 1960, the group had restricted itself to Shakespeare at Stratford...
Apes & Cockatoos. He was a concert pianist, an intimate friend of Chopin and Liszt, and one of the finest post-Beethoven composers for piano. He was known as the Berlioz of the piano. His music reflected none of the warm rhapsodical reveries of Chopin and Liszt but, rather, foreshadowed Mahler and Bruckner. A moody, eccentric loner, Alkan retired from public life at 42 to study the Talmud, teach, and compose. One of the pieces he composed, curiously enough, was a funeral march for a parakeet...
Penn, with an 8-2 record overall, has the finest pair of guards in the League, Stan Pawlak and Jeff Neuman. Pawlak is the fifth leading Quaker scorer of all time, and currently has a 23.5 point scoring average. Neuman is a ball-handling genius, and he sports a 17.6 average to boot...