Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open secret was out. As everyone knew he would (TIME, Sept. 1), Big Jake Kramer, U.S. Davis Cupper and the world's foremost amateur tennis player, turned professional (for a $50,000 guarantee). He will face Pro Champ Bobby Riggs in Madison Square Garden Dec. 26. Also expected to jump the amateur ranks, for second billing on the Kramer-Riggs tour: rambunctious Pancho Segura and Australia's singles champ and Davis Cupper, Dinny Pails...
...Pont, General Motors Corp., General Electric Co., U.S. and Bethlehem Steel, Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Corp., the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and many another great industry came to eat breast of guinea hen with Forbes (at his expense) and get illuminated scrolls naming them "Today's 50 Foremost Business Leaders...
Empire-Builders. The 50 (only 39 were at the dinner) were selected in a poll by Forbes of businessmen in the same way that, 30 years before, Forbes started his magazine by listing the "foremost 50" of that day. Of the old 50 only one-79-year-old Thomas E. Wilson, chairman of Wilson & Co., Inc.-was still alive. At the dinner, where New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey spoke (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), white-thatched Mr. Wilson cracked: "Perhaps I should not say that I am glad to be the only one left, but I will say that...
First and foremost, his experience is that of a teacher, and he still believes in "academic bureaucrats," or deans who teach. Right now, Bender gives occasional lectures in American history, but hopes to expand his pedagogic pursuits when things settle down a bit. From the time of his graduation from Harvard in 1927 until two years ago, he has been teaching here or at Andover. For a while he was a "baby dean," and formed half of the two-man team that developed the National Scholarship plan...
First and foremost, Europe's production effort must be recharged with food, fuel, power, transport and equipment. Said the report: "More food for miners means more coal; more coal means more steel; this in turn makes it possible to produce more mining and agricultural machinery to produce more coal and more food, and more transport equipment to enable the increased supplies of coal to flow smoothly from the pits." The plan specifically included western Germany...