Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain John Hessel had the highest point total with a 284. The four other scorers were close behind Hessel, and all of them shot above 273 points. John Leness and Nat Geary each shot a perfect score in the prone position...
Besides, said Mark Clark, "the $64 question was: Who would defect to whom?...In my opinion, more of the Chinese Communists would have deserted to our side...Here was a perfect testing ground...When [Chiang's troops] went back to Formosa, they would be much more of a threat to the southern Chinese mainland...My recommendations [to Washington] were never answered...
...Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater, a syndicated film series shown locally across the nation, should be perfect for all ardent Cantor fans. Eddie sings his old songs, pats his hands, rolls his banjo eyes, bounces on tiptoe and mixes large doses of sentimentality with a succession of harmless jokes. On the opening show, Brian Aherne labored through a too-cute skit dealing with a talking dog and an equally gabby child...
Gregory Peck, as the tough man's tough man, is by way of giving a nearly perfect performance. And his role is no snap. He must alternate between kindliness and deadliness, each with equal fervor, and yet without destroying the plausibility of either. Millard Mitchell, as a rugged marshal, is an old hand at being expert, as is bar-tender Karl Malden. Skip Homier and Richard Jeckel are the shot and kicked punks, and they seem to enjoy their work...
...next hour and a half had a breathless here-we-go-again quality. It would have been just another dead-eye Fred taking pleasure in his fingerwork. except that Gulda's pianissimo was sweet as a barrel of honey, his legato glided like a gull, and his perfect shading gave each movement a convincing contour...