Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Charles Brackett, 61, topflight Hollywood producer-director-writer (Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard); and Lillian Fletcher, fiftyish, his sister-in-law; he for the second time (his first wife, Elizabeth Fletcher Brackett, died in 1948), she for the first; in Tucson, Ariz...
...killers by such canny old hands as A. J. Cronin and James Hilton, an occasional thoughtful and readable story-James Michener's The Bridges at Toko-ri, Herman Wouk's The Came Mutiny, now in its third year of best-sellerdom-but not one new work of topflight fiction. The novels worth cheering about-and there were several in 1953-had relatively scant commercial success...
...Amateur; in 40 years only two golfers, Bobby Jones (1924-25, 1927-28) and Lawson Little (1934-35), have done it successfully. Last week, at the Oklahoma City Country Club, G.O.P. Congressman Jack Westland, 48, of Everett, Wash., the 1952 winner, set out to defend his crown from 200 topflight amateurs. He found the pressure as heavy as ever. Westland lasted only until the third round...
Modern scientists still feel as Newton did about the great ocean of undiscovered truth. In Scientific American, some topflight authorities describe the challenging mysteries that keep today's scientists baffled...
...Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Frank Darling has mixed leadership with showmanship. The showmanship display began in 1947 when a left-wing group among the 34,000 members of Local 1031 threatened to take over at union meetings because the attendance was so small. Darling met the challenge by importing topflight entertainers, e.g., Jimmy Durante. Eddie Cantor, Jack Carson, and Sophie Tucker, to perform at meetings, soon had the 3,500-seat auditorium filled to overflowing. The union now spends $10,000 a month on show's, which include its own chorus of union girls, "the 1031 Dancing Darlings...