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Unofficial or not, overactive (as many U.S. citizens believe) or not, Eleanor Roosevelt proved herself top-flight in the business of making the U.S. liked by the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: My Day in the South Pacific | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Ambassador to Mexico; Boston Brahmin Joseph C. Grew, former Ambassador to Japan; popular, top-flight Norman Armour, Ambassador to Argentina, now in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One More Scalp | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Top-flight staff members include classically beautiful Barbara Ward, who handles most of the foreign news; onetime economics professor Donald Tyerman; Walter Hill, the Economist's German-educated industrial and trade expert. Staffers work in complete anonymity, submerging their own personalities to the paper's. Result: many a bigwig who would not condescend to see rank-&-file newsmen enjoys confiding in Economist writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 100 Years Young | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...standards his last race was a failure. Competing with two top-flight U.S. runners he did no better than 4:06.9, far short of the still unattainable mark of four minutes flat which many a Hägg fan hoped he might hit on his U.S. tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Man, New Standards | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...outdoor mile, just as the 30 home-run mark was shelved when Babe Ruth came along and consistently batted home runs' in the 40s and 50s; Hägg had set 4:06 as good time for the outdoor mile. Slower runners would never again be top-flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Man, New Standards | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

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