Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Edwin C. (for Conger) Hill, 72, longtime (1932-56) radio commentator [The Human Side of the News), onetime topflight reporter (1904-23) and feature writer (1927-32) for the old New York Sun, whose sonorous tones and rich sealed-in sen'timentalism brought him millions of listeners at his peak; of lung cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Hill at his chestnut-stuffed best: "Indiana! How often in this holiday season the thoughts of an exiled son have turned back affectionately to the old state! Aromas more wonderful than the perfumes of Araby. Thrilling hints of the feast...
...soccer players took their turns for one minute of conversation. On the Budapest end were the players' wives, all with the same message: "Please come home! Everything will be all right." The Hungarian government was leaving no weapon untried in an effort to lure its topflight Honved soccer team back from a renegade jaunt...
...Hoge, 63, will become board chairman of Cleveland's Interlake Iron Corp., nation's No. 1 independent pig-iron producer (sales: $125 million), filling a post vacant since 1951, when Leigh Willard died. A West Pointer ('16) with a civil engineering degree from M.I.T. ('22), topflight Army Engineer Hoge served under MacArthur as first chief of the Philippine Corps of Engineers (1935), built the Alcan Highway (1942), was a member of the group that planned and operated Omaha Beachhead on Dday. He also commanded the armored division that captured the Remagen Bridge (first Allied bridgehead over...
...this sort of thing." His father is Mark Van Doren, 62, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet and professor of English at Columbia; his mother, Dorothy, is a onetime editor (on The Nation) who has published five novels; his late Uncle Carl, whom he idolized, was a Pulitzer Prize biographer, a topflight literary critic and, like Mark, a prolific man of letters who wrote in virtually every form that exists between covers...
Massed tier on tier in the galleries are the canvases of dozens of topflight artists from 13th century Italians to 19th century French impressionists. Sample wholesale lots: 27 Rembrandts (including The Re turn of the Prodigal Son, often called his best work), 40 Rubens, at least a dozen each of Cezanne and Picasso.* The walls are magnificently cluttered. "The emphasis in Russia is not on art as we know it," explains Callisen, "but on culture and the history of culture. So where we would put some things in storage, they hang everything...