Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heartening U.S. achievements, the heartbreaking failure of Australia's John Landy spoiled the day. Testing his sore legs for the first time in weeks against topflight competition, the world's fastest miler finished eleventh in a two-mile run. "This could be the end," said the dejected champ. "Every step was an effort. There's no time...
...speeding the success of good old movies on TV, CBS may be setting a dangerous precedent. Topflight movies are now available to all of the 430 TV stations in the U.S.; within the past year all but two major studios (Paramount and Universal-International) have sold old films to TV. Last week 20th Century-Fox leased to National Telefilm Associates, which has tie-ins with some no stations throughout the U.S., a $30 million backlog of 390 feature films. If Oz had been presented locally in only a handful of cities across the nation, it would have clobbered such...
Watching Chrysler's struggles, Detroit's automen are almost as anxious for success as the company itself. For one thing, topflight competition has always resulted in a bigger overall auto market. For another, both Ford and General Motors are worried about monopoly charges by the Justice Department if Chrysler's percentage of auto sales should slip. Chrysler is determined to set their minds at ease. Growls blunt-talking Edgar C. Row, former boss of Chrysler Corp. of Canada, who took over the No. 2 spot under Tex Colbert last July: "From now on, every s.o.b. who sells...
...basement of Seattle's Civic Auditorium, delegates to the biennial convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Bricklayers Union were happily engaged in the normal pursuits of a beer bust one night last week when a pair of topflight Democratic politicians dropped in. He hoped, said Adlai Stevenson, that his amiable and popular companion, Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson, would be re-elected by a big majority. Then he added: "And I hope he can carry somebody else along with...
...success of Breuer's 50-odd custom-built houses, ranging from his own $5,300 box-on-stilts cottage on Cape Cod to a $350,000 modern mansion on Long Island, has paved the way for his small, topflight firm of 15 architects to move into Big Architecture, with current commissions on four college campuses and a share of the Y-shaped UNESCO headquarters in Paris (TIME, May 25, 1953). But unlike many architects who are only too happy to give up designing houses as being low-profit, time-consuming ventures, Breuer (whose fee is a flat...