Word: rank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, scrappy James K. Vardaman Jr., 64, St. Louis banker who fought with the Navy at Sicily and Okinawa in World War II and ended his active service as Naval Aide (with the rank of commodore) to Crony Harry Truman, submitted his resignation as one of the seven members of the Federal Reserve Board, after more than twelve years' service. One reason: poor health...
Summing it up, a TIME correspondent cabled from Venice: "An important, affecting work that will probably influence other composers who up to now have hesitated to attempt serial writing. It may never achieve real audience popularity, but it will rank with other infrequently done large works, such as Persephone and Oedipus Rex." Added U.S. Composer Alexei Haieff: "What Stravinsky is writing is the best twelve-tone music in the world today...
...Tale of Two Cities (Rank), Dickens' melodramatic thriller about the best of times and the worst of times, has been bouncing on and off the screen like a handball ever since 1911, when James Morrison and Norma Talmadge nickered through three reels of heroism and anguish. The best of times arrived in 1935, when the late Ronald Colman came through with a portrayal of the novel's hero that had dash and dignity as well as the usual desuetude. In this latest attempt, British Actor Dirk Bogarde* gives it a game go, but he never quite fights...
...Guardia Airport, is the Modern Art Foundry. Inside, the walls glow as roaring furnaces melt ingots of bronze, and the air is scented with the churchlike smell of resin and wax dripping from the handmade kilns. There last week stood the man whom many U.S. and European critics rank as one of the top two or three sculptors in the world: stocky, blue-eyed Jacques Lipchitz...
...This dull dumpling of a princess," says Author Kronenberger in his first-rate biography, "adored Sarah for her looks, her quick mind, her unfettered personality; this inveterate stickler for form would put aside for Sarah the one great advantage she possessed, her rank." After they were married (Anne to Prince George of Denmark, Sarah to dashing young Colonel John Churchill, future Duke of Marlborough*), Sarah, at. the Queen's suggestion, addressed her royal mistress as "Mrs. Morley," became herself "Mrs. Freeman." Their husbands, joining in this playacting, were cast as "Mr. Morley" and "Mr. Freeman...