Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final tribute to the memory of Dr. Elliott C. Cutler '09, Mosely Professor of Surgery at the Medical School, was paid by foremost figures in professional and public life in a brief Memorial Chapel ceremony last Tuesday afternoon...
...thought was hardly comforting to the British film industry. In London, an associate of J. Arthur Rank, Britain's foremost producer and largest exhibitor, admitted it was the first time he "had seen the boss really worried." A shortage of U.S. films could starve Rank's movie houses (the Odeon chain) and force them either to close down or run "classics" before dwindling audiences. (Of the 300 new pictures which British movie houses require each year, only about 80 could be produced at home...
...have won so big a reputation on so small a body of work as Edward Morgan Forster (rhymes with divorced-her). Often described as England's foremost living novelist, he hasn't written a novel since A Passage to India (1924). The four other novels he wrote earlier, all fairly short ones, came in a feverish burst of activity-for him-between 1905 and 1910. The rest of his fiction includes only a dozen short stories, written before World War I and long out of print in the U.S. They have now been collected in one volume...
...past years, students at Jacob's Pillow had rubbed elbows in an intimate rural way (over dishes and housework) with such greats of the dance as Martha Graham, Alexandra Danilova, Founder Ted Shawn. This year they got a close-up look at another of the foremost U.S. dancers and teachers. Charles Weidman's name was not so well known to the U.S. as some with less talent. Sol Hurok had never ballyhooed him-but the experts will let him dance in their all-America team any time...
...which passed through San Antonio. San Antonians expect this to increase when the Pan American highway is finished. And they hope to establish a foreign-trade zone, similar to the custom-free zones at New York and New Orleans (TIME, May 12). San Antonio hopes to become the foremost U.S.-Mexican trading post...