Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hulking Gregor Piatigorsky, topflight cello virtuoso, would like to see younger musicians get ahead, too. But last week in San Diego, where he paused between concert tours, Cellist Piatigorsky took a swipe at an old method of helping young artists-musical competitions. Said he: "I shall never again be a contest judge. Too often they are downright absurd. Why insult and discourage 14, let us say, to honor or help one?" The last time he judged a contest. Piatigorsky said, he and his fellow judge, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, heard a singer, a flutist, a clarinetist and a composer...
...everything else." Sam is inclined to agree. But in many a critical match Snead has clubbed his way out of seemingly certain defeat with a shrewd shot. Other 19th-Hole critics attribute his failures to erratic putting, but Snead at his best is as handy a putter as any topflight golfer. Some say that Snead's temperament (a "smoldering volcano," according to the New York Times's Arthur Daley) is not tough enough to withstand the grind of the Open. While it is true that Snead sometimes gives way to the sulks or the "yipes" (jitters...
...OUTLOOK is better than ever for this June's college graduates, especially engineers, accountants and business majors. A record number of companies are recruiting on campuses, and those who started after March are out of the running for topflight students. Main reason: number of graduates is down to 343,000 from 374,000 last year, and around 500,000 in 1949 and 1950. Beginning salaries offered are up around...
After quietly circulating two trial issues to admen, topflight sport figures, and others, TIME Inc. this week officially announced a new weekly magazine "to report and illustrate the wonderful world of sport." The first issue of the 25? ($7.50 a year), TIME-size weekly is planned for the second Friday in August, will come out every Friday thereafter. TIME Inc. is bringing out the first national sport-magazine weekly because of the new emphasis in American life on leisure-time activity and sports...
During the two-year search, Lefty and The Rabbit were kept at public expense in a $40-weekly suite in Brooklyn's topflight St. George Hotel. Why weren't they held in jail or sent to prison for stealing the revolvers? Because New York authorities do not trust their ability to keep order in their own penal institutions. They were afraid that Lefty and The Rabbit would be killed by a friend or hireling of Mazziotta's. Many times known murderers have gone free because the witnesses against them were murdered...