Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brussels last week, the big (2,300 seats) Palais des Beaux-Arts was sold out three nights in a row. Belgians were flocking to hear a series of concerts by a topflight old pianist who is known to U.S. music lovers chiefly through imported records. His name: Edwin Fischer...
Exam fatigue, a long layoff, and a much improved opponent may prove more than the Crimson hockey team can handle when it opens the second half of its season tonight in the Arena. The opponent, Northeastern, has played topflight hockey since returning to action last week after exams, and Cooney Weiland's men, with only sporadic practice during exam period, are definite underdogs, Face...
...Magination (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). Topflight children's show finally returns...
Making his first trip in the road's two-car presidential office was Harry Ashby DeButts, 56, a topflight operating man who has spent all his business life with the Southern. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute (1916), DeButts went straight to work with a pick & shovel on the tracks, hit almost every rung of the ladder on the way up. In 1937 President Norris made DeButts vice president in charge of operations...
...show finally got under way, two weeks late. Despite the boycott and an abundance of mediocre canvases by what critics blasted as "pathetically stubborn anonymous youngsters" and "wall swallowers," there was still some topflight work among the 2,000 sculptures, paintings and drawings. Roman Sculptor Pericle Fazzini displayed a handsome streamlined angel, Milanese Sculptor Giacomo Manzù a series of 25 brilliant figure sketches for works in bronze. Among the pictures were powerful drawings of fishermen by Roman Marcello Muccini, several robustly expressionist nudes by Fausto Pirandello, son of Playwright Luigi Pirandello, and a half-gallery of ex-Surrealist Giorgio...