Word: top-flight
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...aware that much could be done to improve the status of military-band music in the U.S. but the trouble lies in Washington, not in New Haven. My hat is off to young men like Captain Glenn Miller who can put aside the glamor and the big money of top-flight professional careers and enter upon the unexciting routine of an army band on army pay and throw into this new task such energy, enthusiasm and skill as to quicken the pulse and lighten the heart of everyone within hearing distance...
...top-flight 229 heard off-the-record talks by Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall and the Army Air Forces' General Henry H. Arnold. They heard Lieut. General Joseph T. McNarney warn that the fight ahead will be hard and bloody; Major General George V. Strong, Assistant Chief of Military Intelligence, report that German air strength was greater than in 1939, that continued bombings had not broken German morale, and that Hitler had almost three times as many field combat divisions as in the autumn of 1939. Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson keynoted...
...Chester La Roche, 51, top-flight advertising...
...twelve years since Rockne's death, tall, gaunt-faced Clark Daniel Shaughnessy has indeed proved himself a top-flight coach. Last week he uncovered a second talent: military tactics. In Football in War & Peace (Jacobs Press; $1) he convincingly underscores the remarkable similarity of football strategy to tactics in warfare...
...been rising steadily in juke joints and on radio programs for over a year, was swamping Tin Pan Alley. Big names in the drawling art of country and cowboy balladry like Gene Autry, the Carter Family, Roy Acuff and Al Dexter were selling on disks as never before. Top-flight songsters like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra were making their biggest smashes with hill billy tunes. A homely earful of the purest Texas corn, Al Dexter's Pistol Packin' Mama, had edged its way to first place among the nation's juke-box favorites...