Word: shiniest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five joined a U.S.S.R. bacteriologist, "investigated" the charges as a six-man commission, and found them "true." Shiniest button on the Reds' false front was Cambridge University's Professor Needham, whose summary of achievements fills 5½ in. in the British Who's Who, and who reads and writes Chinese (he was once attached as a scientist to the British embassy in Chungking). But Needham himself has admitted that the commission operated unscientifically...
More than 700 guests turned out in their best diamonds and shiniest Cadillacs for a lavish, $25,000 Beverly Hills party given by onetime Cinemactress Marion Davies. Her guest of honor: Sobsinger Johnnie Ray, whom she had never met until that evening. Said Marion: "I wanted to have some fun before I die, and this seemed like a good excuse to do it." The party was set mainly in a canopied patio where tables groaned with quartered chickens, beef tenderloins, caviar and champagne. The fish pond was lined with rosebushes hung with gardenias. The bar, long enough to accommodate...
...Harmony. Despite the lack of SHAPE'S shiniest brass, the ceremony was a tribute to the foresight of SHAPE'S first commander. The school got its start under General Eisenhower, who hoped it would help SHAPE'S multi-nation families to live and work together in harmony. Last January, when the first term began in a reconverted farmhouse, there were 28 boys & girls on the rolls. Now there are 148 students-Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Canadian, Dutch, French, British and American-ranging from four-year-olds to teenagers. When the school opens next fall, Headmaster Rene Tallard...
...hospital, the news was on Page One, and even the most cynical Hollywood moviemakers reacted with a cold chill of alarm. This was no Payton-Tone free-for-all, 'or Gardner-Sinatra burlesque. This time the triangle revolved around some of Hollywood's shiniest showpieces. The husband: Dartmouth man Walter Wanger (rhymes with Grainger), 57, noted producer (Stagecoach, Algiers) and former Academy Award president. Walter Wanger had been on the financial skids since his monumental flop, Joan of Arc; after another failure he went into bankruptcy for $175,000. But he was still a man whose name stood...
...peace meetings, Communism trotted out its shiniest fronts and most attractive faces: artists like Pablo Picasso, Rockwell Kent and Diego Rivera, authors like Howard Fast, clergy like Britain's Dr. Hewlett ("Red Dean of Canterbury") Johnson, and Metropolitan Nikolai of the Russian Orthodox Church...