Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fugger. The art of business prediction has come a long way from its starry-eyed origins. But economists admit readily that their prognostications are still largely a matter of educated guesswork. And in the current uncertainty over the economic outlook, guesstimating fever has reached epidemic pitch. Says one topflight Washington economist: "We work by the seat of our pants more often than we like to admit...
Died. Hortense Monath, 51, topflight concert pianist, program director and co-founder (in 1936) of Manhattan's famed New Friends of Music, first American woman pianist to solo with the NBC Symphony (1941); in Manhattan...
Bible, a hand-groomed favorite of the Senate Democratic leadership, set aside an earlier decision to retire to the "quieter role" of private life (as a topflight Reno lawyer). But, far from improving the Democratic position, the move misfired, left the party's fragile post-McCarran unity as fractured as a quartz crystal from the Comstock mines. Three other Democratic hopefuls, all of whom had politely waited until Bible announced his "retirement" last fall to jump into the race, gave little indication of getting out again. Most certain to benefit from the fracture: able Clifton Young, 33, Nevada...
Died. Louis Calhern (real name: Carl Henry Vogt), 61, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), topflight. Brooklyn-born character actor of stage (King Lear) and screen (The Magnificent Yankee, Julius Caesar); of a heart attack, while on location with the M-G-M company of The Teahouse of the August Moon; in Nara, Japan...
...build a $13,500,000 research and development facility, probably in the Los Angeles area, to be completed in 1958 and employ 1,000 to 2,000. Absorption of Systems Research, composed mainly of scientists who quit the Lockheed missiles program in a policy squabble, gives Ford a readymade, topflight scientific team plus a batch of government contracts...