Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week before the Yale meet next Saturday, an almost exclusively Freshman Jayvee swimming team whipped St. George's School 49 to 17. Highlight of the afternoon was Chuck Holzier's time of one minute, seven and two-tenths seconds in the 100 yard breast stroke, a Freshman record breaker for that event...
Divorced. By Jascha Heifetz, 45, Russian-born violin virtuoso: Florence Vidor Heifetz, 44, retired silent-screen star; after 17 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Ana, Calif. Testimony highlight: she spoke disparagingly of Violinist Heifetz's musical ability...
...because of its opportunities for technical virtuosity. In deed, Cellist Mischa Schneider, perhaps the most impressive of he four, makes the most of his opportunity. The second movement, a Canzonetta, provides him with a superlative vehicle for pizzicato and upper register proficiency. Violist Boris Kroyt gets his chance to highlight the otherwise lifeless Brahms B-flat Quartet...
...production. Said Krug: in five years the U.S. had more than doubled its industrial production, had out-produced not only its foes but all its allies as well, had hurled $186 billion worth of weapons and supplies at the Axis. The report's most remarkable highlight: "Great as our war effort was, at no time during the struggle did it absorb more than two-fifths of our total national output." At first glance, the transition to peace looked just as good. In his second "Report on Progress of Reconversion," Krug announced that August civilian production...
...Social highlight of a summer term which has been too rushed for social highlights, an informal dance sponsored by the Freshman Common Room Committee is scheduled for Friday evening of next week...