Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snead finally settled down to steady, safe playing. It won him his first British Open with a 290, four strokes better than his fellow American Johnny Bulla and South Africa's Bobby Locke. It was only the second major championship that Snead had won in 10 years of topflight, big-money playing (his first: the 1942 P.G.A. in Atlantic City...
...over the U.S., veteran college and university professors were saying goodbye and climbing down from their lecture platforms-this time for keeps. Six topflight teachers whose retirements (in July or September) were announced last week...
Paris, traditionally the place where the talented young wild men go, is actually an old man's paradise. Last week art lovers crowded the swank Galerie Charpentier in Faubourg Saint-Honore, to see 100 topflight examples of the contemporary "Paris School." Of the 52 painters in the show, about a dozen were dead. The average age of the living...
Jose Iturbi's Falstaffian zest does not begin or end with music. He has logged 1,400 hours as a pilot, over 20 years as a topflight pianist, thousands of miles as a motorcyclist, and hundreds of rounds as an amateur boxer...
...opposition in the 1,500-meter run at Compton College was not topflight, but Strand's time was. (Like Glenn Cunningham, he races against himself.) He ran, as usual, with both palms up, fingers curled -as though he were holding a glass of water in each hand. At the finish Strand was yards in front, unhurried, and two-tenths of a second off Les MacMitchell's meet record of 3:51.4. He might not run the four-minute mile at the San Antonio A.A.U. championships this month, but U.S. tracksters already regarded him with brooding respect...