Word: nicest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's total, is converting poorer-grade orange orchards to lemons by grafting lemon branches on full-grown orange trees. Though oranges are still the biggest part (72%) of the co-op's business, Armstrong's lemonade business takes all the farmers grow. "And the nicest part of the whole thing," says Armstrong, "is that these sales haven't hurt sales of fresh lemons. They've been growing...
About the nicest compliment Savo Radulovic ever got was a letter from a suburban housewife who came to see his paintings in a Philadelphia gallery last week. Before her visit, the lady wrote, her greatest ambition was to have "a mink stole and a sterling silver coffee service." Now, she would rather own a Radulovic...
...spent a year in General Electric's laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y., experimenting with new ideas on stage lighting. For five years she taught drama at Missouri's Stephens College. She even tried lecturing (said she in Manhattan's Town Hall in 1939: "Emotions are the nicest things we have . . . and the most dangerous...
Everyone who knew Fred Eugene McManus thought he was just about the nicest boy in the suburban village of Valley Stream, N.Y. He was a handsome lad, tall, well built, with a quick, pleasant smile. He came from a good home-the McManus family lives in a big, white, well-kept house, and the boy's father, Mose McManus, a well-paid brewery executive, saw to it that his son had a pleasant life. But unlike many a good-looking boy with doting parents, Fred seemed completely unspoiled. He was quiet, notably polite, and rather shy with girls...
...museums in Des Moines, San Francisco and Ottawa. Saul Baizerman was on hand for the opening, then scurried back to Manhattan to make Greenwich Village ring anew with his hammer. He now has a Guggenheim fellowship to continue his work, and "enough ideas to last for 20 years." The nicest thing of all was the way gallerygoers came up to him in Minneapolis to say how much they liked his work. "Imagine you had children," says Baizerman. "And imagine you married them well, and then went out to visit them. Well, that's the way I feel...