Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both the Sunday and the daily Times. The consolidation is as unprecedented as the title. Until last week, responsibility for the Sunday paper rested largely in the experienced hands of Sunday Editor Lester Markel, 70, who in 41 years at the job polished a product that some readers considered superior to the daily Times. Markel became a somewhat emeritus associate editor...
...stage, he sees himself as an artist of stature and he has repeatedly proved it, most notably in the 1951 Broadway production of Don Juan in Hell, two years later in Kind Sir with Mary Martin, and in 1962 in Lord Pengo, a bad play from which he salvaged superior notices...
Dinners & Bazaars. The Rev. E. W. Albrecht, pastor of the South Miami Lutheran Church, scorns the practice of "roping people for fund-raising dinners in competition with restaurants." But the Very Rev. Nicholas Maestrini, Superior of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, each year raises $65,000 by a $100-a-plate dinner at Cobo Hall in Detroit. The sociable, old-fashioned church supper remains a respected but inefficient way of raising funds...
Died. William Keck, 84, oil tycoon, a crusty California wildcatter who hit it big near Los Angeles in 1922, went on to make his family-controlled company, Superior Oil, one of the world's largest independent producers and to amass a $250 million fortune, the small change from which he used to support such causes as those of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy; in Los Angeles...
...home, four off Newport-the blue-hulled Sovereign leads the light-green Kurrewa by only the narrowest 12-11 margin. In the first of last week's races, sailed in a steady twelve-knot wind, Sovereign breezed home ahead by a quarter of a mile, showing superior speed to windward, where most yacht races are won. But next day, with the wind up to 20 knots, Kurrewa seemed to have it in the bag until a clew pulled out of the jib, and her crew took a horrendous six minutes clearing the mess. Sovereign won her third straight race...