Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said that spoke from a natural bias. Nobody could accuse Al (Li'l Abner) Capp of disloyalty to his profession. Was there a shred of truth in his assertion? To prove that there might be, 100 topflight cartoonists were exhibiting their best work in Manhattan last week...
...good war record behind him (he had lost an eye in a Jap air raid on Burma), he had come to Stoke in search of a peacetime career. A "houseparty" exam at the government's 300-year-old manor house is now the way to get a topflight civil service job in England...
...carefully sidestepped the antitrust division's principal demand: force the producing companies to sell their theater holdings and divorce themselves entirely from film distribution. Instead the lower court merely ordered the companies to 1) stop buying theaters and 2) give independents a chance at first crack at topflight pictures by auctioning them off through competitive bidding. That order, said the Supreme Court, failed to strike at the core of the present cases. It sent the decision back to the lower court for a tougher ruling. To many a lawyer, it looked as if the Supreme Court wanted complete divorcement...
Arch of Triumph (Enterprise-United Artists) is one of the outstanding misfires of the season. Those who made it shoveled some $5,000,000 into the mixer; a couple of topflight romantic leads (Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer); a couple of topflight character actors (Charles Laughton and Louis Calhern); the strenuous talents of Director Lewis Milestone; a massive, studious production; and a somewhat bowdlerized version of Erich Remarque's best-selling romance about political derelicts in the limbo of 1939 Paris...
Died. Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland, 59, topflight football coach; after a brain tumor operation; in Pittsburgh. Light on razzle-dazzle and heavy on rock-&-sock fundamentals, he got the University of Pittsburgh five Rose Bowl bids in his 15 years (1924-39) as coach there, afterwards boosted the lowly Pittsburgh Steelers professional team to a position of power in the National League. His outstanding lifetime winning percentage...