Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That was all that was needed. "I want to make it abundantly clear," an aghast Pat McCarran cried the next day, "that the laxity . . . is not chargeable against [Mrs. Shipley] the chief of the passport division. It is apparent that [she] has simply not had the cooperation of the topflight officials of the department...
...Giovanni Pauletta was head of all microbiological research at Carlo Erba, Milan's big chemical-pharmaceutical company. Recognized as one of Italy's topflight microbiologists, he was one of the first to study penicillin mold in Italy, had written widely on antibiotics. Dr. Pauletta's colleagues also knew him as a dedicated and fearless experimenter who had used himself as a guinea pig hundreds of times. But the doctor never talked much about his experiments. "He was a very modest man," his colleagues said...
...Whitehair's most urgent tasks is to clear up the desperate housing shortage for sailors and their dependents at expanding Navy installations. Last week he named a special assistant to take care of this problem, which, the Pentagon professionals insisted, is "a topflight executive job." The appointee, classed as a "manpower" expert, was none other than Whitehair's-and Donald Dawson's-good friend William Willett, out of a job ever since the Senate kicked...
...Just one topflight modern painter has devoted his art to the service of religion. Georges Rouault, 80, is both a fervent Roman Catholic and a brilliant expressionist. "My only ambition," he once said, "is to be able some day to paint a Christ so moving that those who see Him will be converted...
...something we've always worked for... Our school has had the reputation of being the most prejudiced of all the Big Ten schools. Now all these impressions are broken. I'm thrilled." Last week at Homecoming, Clarice was crowned by Charles Studley, captain of Illinois' topflight football team. Said she: "Maybe some voted for me because I was just Clarice. I hope...