Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rossi did was throw strikes. Against Richmond during his senior year in 1964, Del Rossi threw 102 pitches: 82 were strikes. This uncanny control was the primary reason he compiled a phenomenal 30-3 record as a Crimson hurler and earned a place as the foremost pitcher in Harvard history...
Barry Wood could do no wrong. In late 1931, one of America's foremost sports broadcasters covered Wood and company against Dartmouth. Disappointed with Wood's performance, Ted Husing called the hero's play "putrid." Immediately thereupon, the director of athletics wrote a blistering letter to William Paley, the president of CBS, saying that Husing would never again be allowed to broadcast from Soldiers Field...
...first and foremost exponents of the "treat 'em rough" school of film romance, Gable was the ultimate hero, to whom defeat was unacceptable. Yet one of the most incongruous moments in Dear Mr. Gable was a clip from the one big flop of his career, the 1937 Parnell. "Carry on my fight for Ireland. I charge you. See that Ireland is never defeated," said Gable on Parnell's deathbed. His acting was not equal to the role, and audiences chuckled when they saw the tough-guy trying to play the patriot. He picked later roles more carefully...
Died. Hugo Benioff, 68, foremost U.S. seismologist who turned the art of predicting earthquakes into a science; of a heart attack; in Mendocino, Calif. After charting geological faults along the U.S. West Coast, Benioff warned in 1949 that the forces that caused the 1906 San Francisco earthquake were building toward further upheavals, a prediction borne out by the California earthquakes of 1950 and 1952. His variable-reluctance seismograph, which records tiny changes in a magnetic field, after 30 years is still standard around the world...
...year-old company sold 43,325,000 gallons, partly from springs in the San Bernardino Mountains, partly from five distillation plants and partly from de-ionizing plants, which yield the mineral-free water favored by commercial customers. Runner-up Sparkletts Drinking Water Corp., a subsidiary of Foremost-McKesson, boosted its revenues from $12 million to an estimated $13 million...