Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Kurt Weill, 50, German-born composer of topflight musicals (Lady in the Dark, One Touch of Venus), who collaborated with Playwright Maxwell Anderson on the current Broadway smash hit, Lost in the Stars; of heart trouble; in Manhattan...
Though a newcomer to the U.S., Schuley is an old hand at U.S.-style journalism. In Berlin in the '30s, he worked for topflight foreign correspondents. But the Nazis blamed Schuley for feeding "undesirable news" to the outside world, arrested him and later "retired" him to hunting rabbits on his family's 3,000-acre estate near Magdeburg, now in Russian hands...
Died. Dr. Adolf Meyer, 83, Swiss-born doctor who became one of the U.S.'s topflight psychiatric teachers and researchers, director for 31 years of Johns Hopkins's Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic; in Baltimore...
Back to Jelly Roll Morton. Playing to their first nationwide audience, the Fire-housers sounded like just what they were: topflight amateurs who can push some professionals when it comes to two-beat jazz. Says Kimball: "We try to play as authentically as we can-along the lines of Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. We don't try to copy them; we use them as our inspiration. We like to give the tunes our own treatment...
After Prosecutor Humphreys finished reading the confession, he called witnesses. The most important was William Skardon, one of Britain's topflight military intelligence agents (he had grilled Lord Haw-Haw). By October 1949, British Military Intelligence and the FBI had narrowed their suspicions down to Fuchs, and Skardon was sent to Harwell, the British atomic energy project. On the witness stand, Skardon told the story of how he had gradually drawn out Fuchs...