Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...future would always end as quickly or as cordially. But Washington, well acquainted with his work in World War II, agreed that there was at last a firm hand on the tiller of U.S. mobilization. As his first official act, Wilson had reached into business for two able, topflight men to assist him: General Lucius D. Clay and Sidney Weinberg. Both men will serve without pay. General Clay, 53, bleakly efficient former military governor in the U.S. zone in Germany, got a leave of absence as chairman of the board of Continental Can Co., and resigned as chairman...
...Friendly culled a 21-second spot for Hear It Now: for other stories. CBS network stations sent mobile units up to the Canadian border and deep into the backwoods of South Carolina. Shying away from the musical "stings" that usually embellish radio documentaries, Hear It Now employs instead such topflight composers as David Diamond and Lehman Engel to supply unobtrusive incidental music...
...talk; it was a matter of routine. But for some reason, George entered the grand jury room and began to sing. Before he was through, he had given 49 pages of fact-jammed testimony, which was sizzling enough to help indict nine Miami police officers, to put every topflight gambler out of business and, temporarily, at least, close Dade County's Gold Coast gambling casinos. After he finished testifying, George was hustled out of town...
George Balanchine (real name: Georgi Melitonovitch Balanchivadze) can probably lay as good a claim as any artist living to the title of master of arts. He does not paint, but he does just about everything else in topflight form...
Committed Battalions. During Stanton's presidency, CBS first stole a march on RCA Victor by launching the 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record. At the end of 1948, CBS launched a full-scale talent raid on NBC, and captured such topflight entertainers as Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Edgar Bergen, Red Skelton. Last October, CBS won what seemed at the time to be its biggest victory of all: a 5-to-2 decision by the Federal Communications Commission in favor of CBS's color TV over the rival systems...