Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husband and her father were both topflight Wall Street attorneys...
...Peace (Paramount) probably has more right with it, and more wrong, than any film of recent years. As a super-colossal spectacle, costing $6,000,000, running 3^ hours, and employing a dozen topflight stars and some 8,000 extras, it rivals Gone With the Wind. But as a reflection of Tolstoy's absorbed peeling back of the contradictory layers of human nature, it is nearly valueless. In his tremendous novel, Tolstoy's characters are so alive that they seem more like family and friends than fictional creations. On the VistaVision screen, these same people are only...
...Edward Kennedy Ellington, jazzman, composer, and beyond question one of America's topflight musicians, is a magic name to two generations of Americans. His Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady, Solitude, and countless other dreamy tunes have become as familiar as any other songs since Stephen Foster. As jazz composer he is beyond categorizing-there is hardly a musician in the field who has not been influenced by the Ellington style. His style contains the succinctness of concert music and the excitement of jazz. His revival comes at a time when most bandleaders who thrived in the golden...
...season. After cheering Sir Anthony Eden's Palmerstonian boast that the Royal Navy "will take care of" any Egyptian warships on the loose, the House of Commons, like the French Assembly, adjourned for the summer. But the urgency was real. Air Marshal Sir John Slessor, great airman turned topflight military strategist, spoke for many Britons when he said, "We are faced today with a challenge in the Middle East potentially no less mortal than that in the Europe of 1938-though far more easily countered if we have the courage." The comparison on everybody's lips was Hitler...
...Rome, the Vatican looked with distaste at another kind of fashion problem: the adaptation of a cardinal's dress, complete with chain, pectoral cross and red biretta, as part of the line of Fontana Sisters, topflight Roman couturieres. "The frantic search for novelties," declared an official Vatican spokesman, "has deprived fashion in general, and Italian fashion in particular, of its artistic requirements. This frivolous imitation of a cardinal's attire is simply grotesque...