Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cliff Crosby and Myles Huntington rank thirteenth and fourteenth with respective averages of .364 and .360. Crosby also stands well in the home run race with two homers to his credit against three for league leader Pat Corrigan of Navy...
Although union leaders have fought bitterly to impose such noncontributory pensions on management, do the rank & file of unionists really want them? Last month the same C.I.O. steelworkers who had struck last fall for noncontributory pensions at Inland Steel Co. got a choice of a noncontributory plan and one in which they would contribute a small portion (never more than 4%) of their weekly salaries. By a vote of 3 to 1, Inland workers accepted the contributory plan. One reason: under the contributory plan, workers would get a vested interest, and most of them would get bigger pensions...
...Church of England's "Red Dean" of Canterbury, was an old hand at following the twists & turns of the Communist line. The other was a comparative stranger. He was a Toronto doctor of divinity, James Endicott, 52, a United Church minister only recently arrived in the front rank of Canadian apologists for Communism...
Conductor Sargent's arrival is not likely to mean any big housecleaning of the BBC orchestra. He has frequently guest-conducted it, and declared himself well pleased. Most English critics rank it as one of Britain's top three (the other two: Sir Thomas Beecham's Royal Philharmonic, Barbirolli's Hallé). If it has not won the prestige in Britain that Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony has achieved in the U.S., that is mainly because, as one British critic put it, "the BBC has not had a Toscanini." But in 20 years...
...film tells the story of a small factory whose workers take over control, only to run into such difficulties that they invite the boss back. Moral: workers and management need each other. London's film critics liked the movie. But at week's end, Rank officials, reporting half-empty houses in the first two days of its run, insisted bitterly-but helplessly-that the public didn...