Word: topflighters
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...head man, Chicago concertgoers were skeptical. During his first year Chicago newspapers printed scathing articles about the need for a more eminent conductor. But patient, plodding Stock stuck to his guns. In the many seasons since then he has made himself a reputation as one of the topflight U. S. conductors. Genial Frederick Stock prefers, and conducts best, the works of the German romantics, but he gives his audience a more varied and balanced musical diet than any other U. S. conductor except, perhaps, Boston's Sergei Koussevitzky...
...pearly substance found in all animal fats). He then mixed small amounts of diluted choline, a ptomaine, with the rabbits' carrots. Result: after two months six of the rabbits were cured of their lesions. After further animal work Dr. Steiner, who also teaches in Columbia's topflight medical school, hopes to try choline on human patients...
Participating players, almost a Who's Who of topflight U. S. jammers, included Clarinetists Joe Marsala, Milton Mesirow, Peewee Russell; Saxophonists Bud Freeman, Sid Bechet; Cornetists Bobby Hackett, Hotlips Paige; Pianist Jess Stacey; Trombonist Tommy Dorsey; Drummers Dave Tough and Zutty Singleton. Present also were No. 1 Swing Pundit Hugues Panassié, grey-haired Blues-writer William Christopher Handy (St.Louis Blues, Memphis Blues). This prime assortment of talent bumped slightly at the takeoff, but in the final ensemble lived up to its big names...
...Harvard with a Ph.D. and an academic halo which grew brighter as he studied at Göttingen, Cambridge, Columbia. Today Norbert Wiener, at the age of 43, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ranks as one of the topflight mathematicians in the U. S. A familiar figure on the Tech campus, with his up-tilted head and rolling gait, Professor Wiener is as famous for his ebullience and absentmindedness as he is for his erudition in mathematics, philosophy, theoretical physics, politics and linguistics. Students have heard him cry when...
...activity, Chairman Donahey traveled at week's end to Washington to ask President Roosevelt for more money for the committee, so that it can audit TVA thoroughly itself. Senator Donahey's own checker-upper will be W. O. Heffernan, now the committee's secretary, long a topflight aide of such employers as General Motors, National Cash Register, the British Treasury...