Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When newspaper critics greeted The Dark with cheers last week and daylong lines began forming at the box office, Inge could chalk up a topflight commercial and critical record on Broadway. His previous hits: Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), with Shirley Booth; Picnic (1953), a Pulitzer Prizewinner; and Bus Stop (1955), with Kim Stanley. Hollywood bought all three. Inge's total take: close to a million dollars...
...first time since it invaded Australia, the U.S. Davis Cup team looked like a collection of topflight tennis players. Veterans Vic Seixas and Herbie Flam overpowered the Philippine team, 5-0, served notice that they will have little trouble with Belgium on their way to the challenge round...
...Bacher, Harvard's Nobel Prizewinning Physicist E. M. Purcell, University of California's Livermore Laboratory Director Herbert York, Harvard Chemistry Professor George B. Kistiakowsky. The fifth new member, Lieut. General (ret.) James Harold Doolittle, is a notable all-round man -engineer (doctor of science, M.I.T., 1925), topflight air commander in World War II, executive (a director and vice president of Shell Oil Co.). and one of the clearest voices in the field of defense. M.I.T.'s Dr. James R. Killian, who is also a member of the committee, still remains the presidential eyes and ears...
From all over the country, industries are swarming to Florida's balmy business climate, with the added incentive of no state income tax. Furthermore, Florida's resortlike climate is sure bait for hard-to-get engineers and topflight executives. When starting its West Palm Beach plant, Pratt & Whitney advertised for engineers in Northern newspapers, offered them a choice of jobs in the Midwest, New England, Florida, California. Florida led the other areas combined...
Died. George T. Bye, 70, topflight literary agent who pushed the writing careers of such notables as Rebecca West, Deems Taylor, Alexander Woollcott and Charles A. Lindbergh, encouraged his close friend Eleanor Roosevelt to start her syndicated column "My Day"; after long illness; in New Canaan, Conn...