Word: topnotch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Marion Luther Brittain, 86, longtime president of Georgia Institute of Technology (1922-44); in Atlanta. Under his administration, Georgia Tech became a topnotch engineering school; Brittain doubled its enrollment (now 3,458), built a $300,000 school of aeronautics, imported the late Coach W. A. ("Bill") Alexander to develop Georgia Tech's famed football teams...
...Government to concentrate either on aircraft production or airlines. It decided to keep its planemaking business, and it needed a production man. From Douglas, President Kindelberger took two men with him: crack Designer "Lee" Atwood, now North American's president; and J. S. ("Stan") Smithson, a topnotch designer who is now North American's manufacturing vice president...
...Berlin's catchy score is practically intact (dropped: the topical I Like Ike; added: Berlin's 1913 The International Rag and his 1940 What Chance Have I with Love?). At its Technicolored best-with Walter Lang's zestful direction, Robert Alton's dances and a topnotch supporting cast-the movie is a bouncier, better show than it was on the stage...
High Noon. A topnotch western, with Gary Cooper as an embattled cow-town marshal (TIME, July...
High Noon. A topnotch western, with Gary Cooper as an embattled cow-town marshal facing four desperadoes single-handed (TIME, July...