Word: notch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closing time. Then Union Boss Jimmy Petrillo, unable to see why a musician should play overtime for nothing, put his heavy foot down. In Manhattan last year a Friday Club for jam sessions was founded by Paul Smith, adman and amateur guitarist, and Eddie Condon, band leader and top-notch guitarist. The Friday Club folded because its jam sessions, like many good ones, mingled Negroes and white men, and there were objections from patrons of the hotels where...
Some 250 top-notch colleges of all types agreed to do so. A special P. E. A. commission, headed by painstaking Wilford Aikin, then headmaster of progressive John Burroughs School in Clayton, Mo., set up an elaborate experiment. Colleges were to admit without examination the graduates of 30 selected progressive high schools. Each of these graduates was to be paired, for comparison, with a graduate of a first-rate conventional school, of the same sex, race, age, intelligence, interests, family background...
When the performance was over, most of the audience and some of the ballerinas trooped to Back Bay to view a top-notch art exhibit-78 paintings by Georges Rouault-and the Institute's new home at No. 210 Beacon St. The guests, queued up in the street and taxing the energies of the ushers (Harvard footballers), packed three floors of the building, sipped hot bouillon and champagne punch, saw more of each other than of the pictures...
...made him a journeyman printer at 12. At 15, Fletcher Martin ran away, has been on the loose ever since. As a lumberman, harvester and sailor, he discovered art by drawing dirty pictures for his pals. He joined the Navy to get three squares a day, became a top-notch boxer, began painting seriously when he got out in 1926. Settling in California, he rapidly won museum awards, Federal mural jobs; had one-man shows in Los Angeles and in San Diego...
...make the Blues take to the air; there, they are right at home. Yale outpassed both Princeton and Cornell, as aerial-minded a pair of football teams as you will find anywhere in the country. Anderson may not be in top shape tomorrow, but Yale will receive top notch passing. Al Bartholemy will take care of the receiving angle...