Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program was probably conducted with the loftiest ideals in the higher echelons. It was spark-plugged by General Marshall himself, and the men who ran the show in the Pentagon were of topflight ability. The I & E School at Washington and Lee University had the reputation of being one of the finest in the Army. I can vouch for the efficiency and evangelistic zeal of its faculty; for a month I was impressed with the importance of my military mission and imbued with a love for my fellow-soldiers. When I was handed my diploma...
Rand's book begins with a belligerent introduction by a topflight fellow-designer, E. McKnight Kauffer, who thinks advertising art in the U.S. is "of the poorest quality" but makes an excep tion for Rand. The trouble with advertising art, Kauffer says, is "fright and [the] over-organized departments" of huckster-dom: "This in-between world of research, rationalization and sales talk no doubt gives the client faith and courage-but it generally kills the designer's value. . . . Fear, sex, maternity, snobbism, such are the themes of 90% of advertising that daily haunt our eyes. Hitting below...
...eight weeks, Lord Beaverbrook's London Sunday Express had given four columns an issue to a serialized digest of a new book called Montgomery, "the authentic life story" written by its topflight war correspondent, tiny, toothy Alan Moorehead...
...club with a new coach and personnel who haven't played together for any length of time, the Varsity turned in a fairly good performance. Whether it will be good enough to thrive against Ivy League competitors, most of whom are regarded as topflight, remains to be seen...
Suppose you take a guy with a mellow manner and a voice of blue velvet, name of Bing Crosby, add several measures of topflight tapping by Fred Astaire, sprinkle happily with a few cups of amusement by Billy De Wolfe and Olga San Juan, stir in 32 Irving Berlin tunes of ageless vintage, and include (more or less as a seasoning afterthought) a pretty feline-eyed gal whom the boys call Joan Caulfield. The final product--"Blue Skies"--should be, and is, by cinema standards, a fine bit of musical entertainment. Its conventionally silly plot has Caulfield vacillating between Crosby...