Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France. Unlike most daydreamers, Dassault was equipped with the talent and drive to turn fantasy into reality. At 23, only two years out of aeronautical school, he designed the propeller for the famed Spad fighter of World War I. At 60 he designed and built France's first topflight jet fighter, the sweptwing, transonic Mystère. Last week Dassault, now 64, showed off his latest marvel, the Mirage, a lightweight, 1,000-m.p.h. interceptor...
...principle of giving the public the best, he presented his second TV show of the season.* It was easily the best show of the week, an NBC Spectacular called Festival of Music (Producers' Showcase, Mon. 8 p.m.), which gathered in one program 13 of the world's topflight instrumental and operatic virtuosos...
...late 1953, Trevor Gardner, Assistant Air Secretary for Research and Development and onetime electronics manufacturer, was assigned to study the whole situation. He gathered a topflight military staff, and consulted civilian scientists of the highest caliber, one of whom was Mathematician John Von Neumann, now an Atomic Energy Commissioner...
...moviedom's topflight fashion plates, spry Boulevardier Adolphe Menjou, 65, happy veteran of more than 21 years of marriage to Verree Teasdale Menjou, paid tribute to the sartorial keystone of the marital arch. Suavely twirling his waxy mustache, Cinemactor Menjou advised: "If men would pay more attention to appearances, there would be fewer divorces. When a man goes around in a baggy, ill-fitting suit, looking something like a fugitive from the Bowery, it's no wonder that his wife loses interest in him [and] the tinsel starts to wear off the romance." Some of his helpful hints...
Born. To Lewis Hoad, 21, Australian Davis Cup star, and Jennifer Staley, 21, one of Australia's topflight women tennis players: their first child, a daughter; in Melbourne. Name: Jane...