Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before granting top honors. Bent on "making up for the injustice at Venice" last year, the ten-man jury gave the $4,000 grand prize to France's aging (74) modernist master, Fernand Leger (TIME color page, June 22, 1953- see cut), then bypassed 29 works by topflight British Painter Graham Sutherland to hand the next prize of $1,300 to Italian Abstractionist Alberto Magnelli...
More than 20 years ago, Dr. Karl von Frisch, topflight bee authority, thought of a way to test the bee's remarkable sense of time. He knew that if sugar water is offered to bees at a fixed hour, they will sally forth every day just in time to get it. They do not judge time by the sun, as was proved by putting the hive in an artificially lighted room, but there was a chance that some more subtle local influence might keep them on schedule...
...public-health experts last week publicly agreed with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis that inoculations of Salk vaccine should continue through the summer polio season. The probable benefits, the committee reasoned, outweighed the possible hazards. In Washington four days later, Tennessee's James Percy Priest called 15 topflight vaccine experts before the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Subcommittee on Health and Science and got some quite different answers...
...face the Soviet statesman, CBS lined up three topflight Washington correspondents : Arthur Sylvester of the Newark News, James Reston of the New York Times and James Shepley of TIME. Meanwhile, Molotov laid down a condition for his appearance. Refusing to be freely questioned by the reporters, he demanded that all questions be submitted beforehand, and that the show consist of his prepared answers. Declining these terms, the newsmen insisted on the normal practice, i.e., that Molotov answer follow-up questions to clarify his answers to original questions. The reporters and the network pointed out that not even Secretary of State...
...sight of the newly arrived American tourist rushing to Paris' Louvre or Florence's Uffizi is as familiar as Mona Lisa's smile. A far more recent phenomenon is the ceremonial trip to U.S. museums. So much topflight art has funneled into U.S. collections in recent years that today a tour of major U.S. museums has become a must on the agenda of many a foreign visitor, including Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth. Japan's ex-Premier Yoshida. Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab. Arriving in Washington on state business. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...