Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lafargue Clinic. The doctor-famed Psychiatrist Frederic Wertham (TIME Feb. 18, 1946). Dr. Wertham's clime, launched without a cent of backing 21 months ago, is little richer than when it started, but it has become an impressive, going concern. Its staff, all unpaid includes 14 psychiatrists, 12 topflight social workers, a dozen other specialists and clerical workers...
...years-a failure. Three years later, in London, with actors he promised to pay later, he turned out The Private Life of Henry VIII and won the support of Britain's powerful Prudential Assurance Co., Ltd. Prudential staked his London Film Productions, Ltd. with cash to turn out topflight pictures (Catherine the Great, Rembrandt, Scarlet Pimpernel...
...Radioman Ratner, 43, is in a good spot to hit back at radio's detractors: he is the new CBS vice president in charge of promotion and advertising. He is a veteran scrapper (as a University of Michigan freshman, he once outwrestled Ed "Don" George, who became a topflight U.S. heavyweight...
Lewis hated the work. Heavy theological argument with topflight minds is his greatest pleasure, but he is too much of an intellectual snob to enjoy answering not-very-bright questions. He doggedly stuck to this chore as part of his duty to Church and country, but he once wryly blamed his unpleasant war work on the "unscrupulousness of God." Said he: "I certainly never intended being a hot gospeler. If I had only known this when I became a Christian...
...idolatry in the U.S. may be a blind, uncritical worship of democracy. So says hawk-nosed Reinhold Niebuhr, a topflight theologian who also takes a vigorous interest in politics. In the current issue of his fortnightly Christianity and Crisis, Editor Niebuhr writes...