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Earl Eames and Lloyd Haynes, M.I.T. seniors both, fell to talking that day in 1947 about World War II and the ruins they had seen in Europe. By the time they reached their Cambridge station, they had hit on their idea: bring topflight European technical students to M.I.T., give them advanced work in their specialties, then send them home to help reconstruct their countries...
...station WNBC decided to spice up the formalities with "wakeup copy" in the morning and "go-to-bed copy" at night. To do the job, enterprising General Manager Ted Cott commissioned such seasoned phrasemakers as Poet Louis Untermeyer, Novelist Fannie Hurst, Editor Norman (Saturday Review of Literature) Cousins and topflight Radio...
Castoff Shirts. Like her father, Helen Frick has spared no expense. In 1928 she appointed Dr. Frederick Mortimer Clapp, head of the fine arts department of the University of Pittsburgh, as general editor, got Porter Garnett and later Bruce Rogers,, topflight book designers, to lay out the format. She brought dozens of art scholars to Manhattan, some from as far as Spain, France and Britain, to examine the Frick masterpieces and write the catalogue's text pieces...
When Bobby Jones helped design the National golf course at Augusta, Ga., he made it fairly comfy for the average golfer, tough for the topflight pros. Most of the hazards seemed to have been placed just where they would penalize the game's best long-ball hitters. Last week, in the annual Masters Tournament, most of golf's top amateurs and pros agonized around Augusta's 6,900-yd. course through four days of overstuffed scores...
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...