Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What's My Line? (Sun. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Topflight quiz show, with a talented panel guessing the occupations of strangely assorted guests...
With an embarrassed air, the State Department admitted last week that it had suspended two of its topflight officers. Reason: they are under investigation as security risks. The men are Oliver Edmund Clubb, the department's director of the Office of Chinese Affairs, and John Paton Davies Jr., a longtime China hand who has been serving on State's Policy Planning staff...
Club, Snead was 17 strokes under par after defeating five topflight opponents. Said Snead: "I don't know that I've ever scored better." In the final, against Newcomer Walter Burkemo, Snead outdid himself...
...evidence of the kind of razor-edge conditioning that has helped to make Sugar Ray Robinson the best fighter in the ring today. At a time when boxing is suffering from a sad lack of topflight performers, Sugar is a sparkling exception to the rule...
...Make It Simple." When Wilson went to Washington again last year, he took Weinberg along. Proud of the fact that he had little formal education, Weinberg liked to twit other mobilizers in topflight conference with: "Make it simple. Remember, I'm just a boy from P.S. 13." Weinberg's favorite remark to colleagues who couldn't keep up with his lightning-like mind: "You're not so bright today." Dozens of times a day, he would pop across the hall to Wilson's office with a brisk, "You busy, Charlie?" then clear up some mobilization...