Word: largest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George Horace Lorimer (1899-1936) that he once ordered the glasses brushed out of a story illustration of a cocktail party, leaving the pictured guests with their poised hands mystifyingly upraised. More tolerant under Editor Ben Hibbs, the Post nevertheless sought no business from the nation's third largest (after automotive, food) advertiser. Even after Curtis' own Holiday cut itself into the $160 million a year that the alcoholic beverage industry spends peddling its wares, the Post righteously held back...
...prize for art dealers the world over, was settled. For a mere $4,737,000, Rotterdam's municipal government bought the whole collection from the Van Beuningen heirs, will house it in the city's Boymans Museum, where old D.G., who called it. "my museum," kept his largest canvases. In return for the bargain price, the Van Beuningen heirs set a few conditions: the collection must not be resold, it must be on permanent view, it must be clearly labeled as coming from...
...over the subway platform to see whether his train is coming. Last week the uptown train roared in for Fred Donner, 55. In a major shift of General Motors personnel, Financial Vice President Donner was tapped to succeed retiring President Harlow Curtice as boss of the world's largest industrial corporation...
Gouged Earth. Desai leaves behind him an India exhaustedly beginning its twelfth year of independence. For all of its troubles-poverty, illiteracy, disease, violence -much has been accomplished. Considering the handicaps of 14 major languages and some 800 dialects, and the world's second largest supply of people (387 million), India is a model of governmental stability: since 1947, it has had the same Prime Minister, Nehru; the same ruling party, the Congress Party; the same governing philosophy, democratic socialism. Unlike most nations from the Mediterranean to the China Sea, India is not seriously threatened by a revolutionary group...
...North's flowers. On the left stands Laestadius preaching hellfire, while one Lapp smashes a keg of aquavit, another returns a stolen reindeer. On the right, Laestadius begs mercy from a Virgin Mary, while a Lapp lay priest, Raatma the Mild, listens. Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's largest daily, called it "a masterpiece . . . everything is dissolved and recreated in the same breath...