Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Manhattan, at a forum sponsored by the Trade & Industry Law Institute, some topflight economists and lawyers tried to chart a way for the U.S. around the dilemma of bigness. Gaunt, grey Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, ex-chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, led off with an attack against the current policy of the Truman Administration's trustbusters. Their heavy emphasis on the prosecution of big companies, said he, should be abandoned...
...felt that whatever the Divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report." City Editor John Bogart's definition became even more famous: "When a man bites a dog, that is news." To gather and write the new "human interest" stories, the Sun corralled such topflight reporters as Jacob Riis, Arthur Brisbane, Richard Harding Davis, Will Irwin, Irvin S. Cobb and Frank Ward O'Malley...
Wordsworth contended that nobody should pry into the private lives of authors. "Our business," said he, "is with their books-to understand them." But topflight London Neurologist Walter Russell Brain is curious about the writers themselves. In the current Journal of the British Medical Association, Dr. Brain reports on some medico-literary autopsies which expose the mental instability of many a genius...
...Madison Square Garden last week the St. John's basketball team did everything wrong but shoot at its own basket. For a topflight team, their ball handling was wretched, their close-in shooting slovenly. With 45 seconds to play and St. John's three points behind, all that Utah had to do to score an upset victory was to freeze the ball until time ran out. Then prosperity went to Utah's head...