Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were almost neck & neck. Then, almost imperceptibly, McLane began to draw away. Porpoising along at a steady 35 strokes to a length, he won last week's National A.A.U. 1,500-meter championship by a full length of Yale's Payne Whitney pool. Among the topflight swimmers Jimmy McLane left in his wake were Olympians John Marshall (of Australia and Yale), Peter Duncan (of South Africa and the University of Oklahoma), and Wayne Moore (of Nichols, Conn, and Yale). For McLane, it was a splashy comeback, at the age of 22, as the No. 1 U.S. distance...
Martin, who knows that one way to win friends is to praise them, spends millions advertising other people's products. For the second year in a row, he is devoting the commercials on his topflight TV whodunit, Suspense, to show off the cars put out by Auto-Lite's customers. In April, after he has shown ten cars on TV, Martin will spend about half a million dollars on his own "Parade of Stars" auto show at Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria. Says Royce Martin: "When we help the customer, we help ourselves...
...idea behind the program is to dramatize the life of a living person. As exhibit A, Edwards brought on Lillian Roth, 40, a topflight torch singer of the Prohibition era, who cheerfully admitted that she had been a hopeless drunk for 16 years before being rescued by Alcoholics Anonymous. Also on hand to underline the horrors of strong drink: a psychiatrist who had treated her (Announcer Edwards described Lillian as having suffered from "impending blindness, an inflamed sinus and a form of alcoholic insanity"); a brother-in-law who had paid her bills; such glamorous foul-weather friends as Lita...
...Scudder's hospital has 550 beds and 60 baby cots. Last year it treated 10,680 inpatients and 45,616 outpatients. In addition, its four roadside bus clinics took care of 33,817 villagers. Widely recognized as one of the best in India, Vellore Hospital has topflight specialists from four continents and dispenses the latest wonder drugs. But to many a patient, lying scared as she awaits the anesthetist's mask, the most comforting feature is the gentle but firmly reassuring handclasp of Dr. Scudder, the woman who decided to follow family tradition...
Last week Chicago's Social Research Inc. (TIME, March 1, 1948) reported on a study of 60 topflight women executives. S.R.I.'s conclusion: they got to the top not imitating men, but by capitalizing on their feminine talents...