Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Bernard Grasset, 74, onetime topflight French book publisher (Giraudoux, Maurois, Mauriac) who was paid by Marcel Proust to print Swann's Way in 1913, after Proust had looked in vain for a publisher; after long illness; in Paris. Convicted in 1948 of collaboration with the Nazis, Grasset was fined 10,000 francs, sentenced to "national degradation for life...
...Prosperity-in-Hollywood note: M-G-M announced that its stable of topflight screen writers had hit an eight-year high, with 51 writers at work on 41 major movies...
...months ago went Laurence Hyland, an able onetime Bendix executive with plenty of drive to push both research and production, keep building up the staff. Since 1949, Hughes Aircraft's payroll has jumped from 750 to over 20,000; the research and development division alone has 2,000 topflight men against less than 100 seven years ago; one out of every ten scientists and engineers holds a Ph.D., one of every four a master's degree. With his talent monopoly, Hughes has repeatedly outbid some of the biggest U.S. firms for contracts, and been able to deliver...
Died. George Toland Cameron, 82, publisher since 1925 of the San Francisco Chronicle (circ. 166,800), topflight West Coast industrialist; in San Francisco...
...printed program with complete lyrics, probably because of its English text. The printed words would have been appreciated, however, because despite Gartside's best effort the text was only intermittently intelligible. In this work John Woodworth '32, the fine pianist of the evening, was joined by a topflight student string quarter. Combined with Gartside's finest singing, the result was unusually exciting music...