Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...library of his Manhattan apartment, when he sat down at his desk determined not to get up until he had thought of a "great" idea. His mind turned toward quiz shows and Mount Everest, and he thought that the Everest of quiz shows would be one with increasingly tough peaks to scale. Then he wondered what he could give as a commensurate reward to anyone who scaled the highest peak. He remembered an old giveaway show, Take It or Leave It, later known as The $64 Question. He said to himself, "$640?" No. "$6,400?" No. Then it came...
Kiss for the Queen. This year the program was Bach, Schubert and Brahms, and everyone agreed as usual, that the master was at the peak of his power and form. In the L' Eglise Saint-Pierre, on a platform before the altar, the old man sat playing his "tired" old cello with closed eyes. Every seat in the church was taken for the extra-long (2½ to three hours) concerts that are a Prades tradition, and listeners sat or stood wherever they could find breathing space. Front-row center sat Belgium's Queen Elisabeth, noted and knowledgeable...
RECORD EMPLOYMENT in June pushed the number of U.S. jobholders over the 64 million mark for the first time in history. Employment jumped 1,313,000 to a total 64,016,000, or 325,000 more than the previous peak (August 1953). Overtime pay is running at the highest level in history, while factory hirings top layoffs by the greatest margin since...
...revolutionary or a representative poet of his generation. He is of no party, no clique, no decade of time. The impression made by his poems is not of a blaze of fireworks but of a white-hot center. At his least impressive, he is spare and dry; at his peak, his closest neighbors are the lyricists of ancient Greece. Where lesser poets exalt or complain lustily, Graves writes like one who is in perpetual mourning but is also far too proud to take refuge in disillusioned reading or drinking. This combination of subject doom and kingly dignity gives his works...
...case wholesale, a price that in many instances translated itself into a $1.20-per-case boost to U.S. beer drinkers. As a result, Anheuser-Busch, while it still beat out Schlitz by 400,000 bbls. last year, slumped 800,000 bbls. from its 1953 peak. Worst of all, most of the loss was to less expensive local beers, a market that Busch has not yet been able to win back. Characteristically, Busch took the full blame. Said he to his stockholders at the annual meeting: "We made what was probably the worst mistake in the company's history...