Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paul M. Pitman, a TIME-reader for the past 20 years, got an idea when he read TIME Education's annual "Goodbye, Messrs. Chips" story last July. As he studied the story of eight topflight teachers then going into retirement, he decided that as new president of the College of Idaho he needed just that kind of mature scholar to mix with his younger teachers. So he wrote letters to them, asking each if he would like to come out to Idaho...
Today the return to the teaching of universal knowledge is well under way, and nowhere is it more visible than in the Yale of Whitney Griswold. It could be seen in its most obvious way in the breadth and depth of Yale's imposing facilities-topflight schools of law, medicine, divinity; the nation's oldest forestry school; the world's second largest university library (next to Harvard's). It could be seen more clearly still in Yale's whole interlocking curriculum, where political scientists and psychiatrists teach in the law school, physicists rub elbows with...
...Twinkle. For Composer Martinu, the first U.S. performance of an opera by him is a step into a new limelight. Since he settled in the U.S. in 1941, his new compositions (e.g., five symphonies, a third piano concerto, many chamber works) have spread his name as a topflight instrumental writer. His orchestral works have been played by such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the NBC Symphony and the Boston. But few Americans knew that he had written ten operas, or that half of the operas are comedies...
...read from a prepared statement. A plain, almost schoolmasterish figure in spite of his crisp summer tans and combat ribbons, Omar Bradley, topflight battlefield general (in Europe he commanded more combat troops than any military man in U.S. history), was Witness No. 3 in the MacArthur hearing...
...close student of his profession and of international affairs, tall, spare Al Wedem was marked out early in his career as a topflight staff officer.* like such contemporary Army "brains" as "Beetle" Smith and Al Gruenther (now Eisenhower's chief of staff), and like George Marshall. Graduating from West Point too late for World War I, Wedemeyer in 1936 was sent to study blitzkrieg tactics at the German War College in Berlin. The experience came in handy in World War II. His firsthand knowledge of the new Wehrmacht (before Pearl Harbor, he got a long letter from...