Word: standouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...salesman for the family firm. Struck with an idea, he designed a pair of triangles to be sewn into the droopy women's knitwear bathing suits of the day. The new wrinkle-first built-in bras ever to grace Danish suits-proved to be a standout at the beaches and a smash at the cash register...
Davis, on the other hand, was a standout, but no superstar at Harvard. And yet he is a better pro prospect than Leo. At six-feet-six and 235 pounds, Davis was the quickest, though possibly not the strongest, of Harvard's interior linemen. Because it uses a pursuing style of defense, Harvard depended almost entirely on Davis for an occasional big pass rush...
...object of the university press," says Wilson, "is to publish as many books as it can without losing its shirt." > Savoie Lottinville, 60, another Rhodes scholar and a former boxing instructor and newspaper reporter, has built the University of Oklahoma Press into the nation's standout example of a successful regional publisher. A bouncy little man (5 ft. 5 in.) who contends that no field can be properly explored in less than five volumes, Lottinville has completed a 90-volume series on the Civilization of the American Indian, 53 volumes of the American Exploration and Travel Series, 36 volumes...
...Corris, for three seasons a standout in the breaststroke and individual medley, received the William J. Bingham Award last night at the first annual senior lettermen's dinner, held at the Varsity Club...
...spectacular standout is David McClelland's "Great Game of Absolution and Redemption," a satire on, of all things, Calvinism-a highly successful satire which not so long ago would have gotten him dunked in every pond in Massachusetts. The Puritan game delights in the fact that wherever the player moves, he can't help but fall into sin, McClelland's apt use of the unexpected turns a good idea into a brilliantly funny piece...