Word: standouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, Sparkman has not been a standout on the floor. He is most effective in Senate committees (Foreign Relations, Banking & Currency and Small Business). His conduct at meetings has rarely varied. He begins by reading a newspaper, then falls into what seems to be a peaceful snooze. When the contending factions have shouted themselves into a near temper, John Sparkman will open his eyes, lean forward and quietly tell the most belligerent group: "We've got to give consideration to that ..." Then, displaying knowledge of the facts which had apparently put him to sleep, Sparkman will work toward...
Among the week's standout athletes: ¶ The University of Texas' David ("Skippy") Browning, who led the U.S.'s 1-2-3 sweep in springboard diving...
...commentators had also profited from their experiences at the Republican Convention. They were a lot less talkative and a lot more informative,* particularly the bird-dogging floor reporters with walkie-talkies, who frequently were able to funnel the news out before the delegates themselves were informed. The convention standout: ABC's tenacious Martin Agronsky, who developed a knack for catching delegates eager to report the results of their most recent caucus...
...Blue Boy, Thomas Gainsborough's most famed work, is the favorite at the Huntington Library and Art Gallery near Pasadena. It is a standout in the splendid $50 million collection put together between 1908 and 1927 by Railroad Heir Henry E. Huntington...
...world's greatest third-string swimmer" was the label that sportwriters stuck on slight .(5 ft. 8 in., 150 Ibs.) Wayne Moore soon after he began swimming for Yale three years ago. On anybody else's team, Moore would have been a fast-stroking standout. But at Yale his talent was submerged at first in the backwash of two spectacular teammates: Australia's John Marshall, holder of the world 440-yd. free-style record, and Jimmy McLane, who, as an Andover schoolboy of 17, became the 1948 Olympic 1,500-meter freestyle champion. Last week, after...