Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norman front it was bitter, close, bloody fighting for one small position after another; battle so like the grinding attrition of the troop-saturated positional fronts of World War I that it gave some veteran officers a nightmarish feeling of "this is where I came in." It took no topflight strategist to conclude that the invasion of Western Europe was falling farther & farther behind schedule...
Harold went to Harrow and Sandhurst (Britain's West Point), became a dashing young blade, an indifferent student, a topflight track athlete. In 1914, he won the Irish mile (6,721 ft.) in 4 min. 33 sec. He chose to start his military career in the Irish Guards rather than the Coldstream Guards which his grandfather had commanded. In World War I he went over the top 30 times, was wounded twice, became a lieutenant colonel and a battalion commander...
...Readers with better memories than Reader McCarthy's know that Charles Phelps Taft II, son of the President, has had his share of TIME mentions-as "a bright young man" (Jan 8, 1934), "a socially conscientious progressive" (June 28, 1937), a "topflight layman" of the Episcopal Church (Dec. 8, 1941), etc. Many a reader will recall hearing of Charlie Taft as a Phi Beta Kappa football and basketball star at Yale, a World War I veteran (first lieutenant), the father of seven children, a 7-handicap golfer, a onetime Landon brain-truster, a personable Cincinnati lawyer, and the possessor...
From that time the outfit is in the hands of the burgeoning Transportation Corps, whose chief, Major General Charles P. Gross, West Point-educated engineer, became one of the Army's topflight commanders when Transportation was organized ten months ago. The duties of the Transportation Corps (a part of the Army Service Forces) are as numerous and as complex as those of any organization in the Army, but none is as dramatic as shipping soldiers off to war. The Transportation Corps moves the outfit-usually by rail-from the training camp to an assembly point, somewhere in the vicinity...
...winter, things were a little better. Johnny Chase had a topflight hockey team which turned in the best Crimson season in many winters. The skaters even succeeded in tying highly-rated Dartmouth, after that college had won 32 straight games. Yale was beaten two out of three, so the old grads were very happy. Basketball season was a little weird, with a mediocre quintet doing all sorts of amazing things, such as beating Penn and Princeton, and losing to Yale. The boys proved very good guests wherever they went, simply refusing to win on an opponent's court. They split...