Word: notch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years gone by, early July tournaments such as these caused only a raised eyebrow among U. S. tennis fans. Last week, however, with America's top-notch amateurs competing at home instead of at Wimbledon, the tennis world watched with interest. Most eyes were on North Conway. For the Gold Racquet tournament-inaugurated last year by Manhattan Banker Harvey D. Gibson to publicize his native village as a summer as well as a winter resort-has already become an important event on the U. S. tennis calendar. On display at North Conway was 20-year-old Frank Kovacs...
...confusion, Hellzapoppin had to play second fiddle to what happened 70 miles farther up the Hudson last week. There, off Poughkeepsie-under murky skies and over wind-whipped whitecaps-America's top-notch college crews (except Harvard and Yale) met in the 43rd annual Intercollegiate Regatta...
...Thousand Times Neigh is a Ford's-eye-view of the problems of Dobbin, a $1,000 steed of cloth and leather, with movable eyes, ears, lips, jaws, tail. Horse-players: Vladimir Vassilieff, Kari Karnikovski. From 1903 to the present, Dobbin foots it featly while such top-notch Caravan dancers as Marie Jeanne and Nicki Magallanes mime the rise of the Ford-often on the toes of their ballet slippers. The music of NBC Staff Composer Tom Bennett, canned on a sound track for the first time in ballet, accompanies them tunefully, if not with great distinction...
...owners of a dozen or more U. S. race horses could have kicked themselves last week. So convinced were they that Colonel Edward Bradley's Bimelech would make their pets look like plugs, all but seven of the country's top-notch turfmen withdrew their entries for the Kentucky Derby the week before the race. Last week, when 95,000 fans crammed into Churchill Downs to watch Big Bim romp off with America's No. 1 horse race, many a rival owner had already phrased his felicitations to Colonel Bradley, too ill to watch his latest...
Many a publisher went home wondering if there was still time to convince his public that Mr. Willkie would make a top-notch Republican nominee...