Word: topnotch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early last year the West German firm of Peter Meyns bought sodium bichromate and potassium bichromate (used in tanning leather) and paraffin wax from the U.S., had the chemicals shipped to West Germany. The Glasgow firm of Arbuckle, Smith & Co., a topnotch forwarding outfit which ships most of the Scotch whisky to the U.S., then stepped in and bought the consignment. Shortly afterward, the U.S. Commerce Dept. charged that Arbuckle, Smith had shipped the chemicals to Red China, where they would bring $100,000, or almost double their U.S. price. The Bureau of Foreign Commerce asked Arbuckle, Smith...
...National Gallery's Italian Renaissance collection has always been topnotch, except for high-Renaissance (16th and 17th century) art. The Kress gifts will correct that weakness as well, if only by the announced addition of three masterpieces, by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese, from the golden age of Venice. Zurbaran's big convent picture will give new weight to the Spanish section, and Watteau's charming Ceres will add a lift to the 18th century French collection...
...lilac, but much of it was engagingly different. As coordinated as a precision instrument, Walter Schumann's choral group managed to sound now like an entire circus, again like the string section of a symphony orchestra. Harry Belafonte, singing blues, calypso and spirituals, turned out to be a topnotch TV personality. Best of all were witty Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, who can make their sophisticated routines look joyously impromptu. All in all, 3 for Tonight proved that skill and imagination can be more fun than a lot of expensive scenery...
Before World War II, only about 300 girls in Manila studied ballet, but during the postwar years, the visits of topnotch foreign dancers-Alicia Markova, Alexandra Danilova, Frederic Franklin et al.-have upped enrollment in ballet schools to approximately...
...Philadelphia, now on its first continental tour, will play in more than a dozen other cities from Lisbon to Helsinki. But its Paris visit was special: it was part of a "Salute to France" that is also offering Parisians the New York City Ballet plus topnotch stage productions of Oklahoma!, Medea and The Skin of Our Teeth.* The U.S. has discovered that American culture is a highly exportable commodity. (In 1953 and 1954 the U.S.S.R. spent $3,000,000 on cultural propaganda in Europe, sent 2,000 Soviet artists into France alone...