Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the U.S. Army sent six topflight industrialists on a tour of the western front recently, what it hoped to get to spur lagging U.S. production was a series of urgent eyewitness accounts of U.S. soldiers' performances and needs in the field. What it got from one of the eyewitnesses last week was quite another thing...
Died. George Trumper, 70, hairdresser to the last three British Kings, proprietor of the topflight tonsorial Mayfair Shop on Curzon Street; in London. Barber Trumper, black razor case in hand, needed no special pass to enter Buckingham Palace regularly trimmed the present King's locks every ten days...
...Moscow's Satire Theater the curtain rose on a new three-act comedy entitled Mr. Perkins' Mission to the Land of the Bolsheviks, written by ex-Vice Commissar of Foreign Afiairs Alexander Korneichuk, a topflight Russian playwright...
...wait to don the toga. Six weeks before his senatorial term begins, he bustled into Washington, promptly called a press conference. To newsmen, he was vague on one subject-his international views. He was more specific on another: his Senate committee ambitions. He has his eye on such topflight assignments as the Finance, Commerce, Naval and Military Affairs Committees. On each of these subjects, he confided modestly, he is something of an expert. Back in their offices, the 15 newsmen who had shown up for this "sneak preview" of the Capehart senatorial career did not write very favorable reviews. Said...
...Soldier Dill, now armed with a Field Marshal's baton, was destined never to reach India. A topflight job developed for which he was Churchill's inevitable choice-head of the British Joint Staff Mission to Washington, set up immediately after Pearl Harbor...