Word: topnotch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guerrilla Warfare. So many topnotch reporters worked on every angle of the story that, as Herald Tribune Correspondent Bert Andrews pointed out, "there's very little opportunity here for any exclusives. It's just a matter of grinding it out." But there were beats of a sort by those willing to take chances. The day the convention started, Editor Louis Seltzer of the Cleveland Press climbed right out on a limb with a Page One story headlined: IKE WILL WIN ON THE 3RD OR 4TH BALLOT. Two days later in Chicago, Publisher John Knight predicted in the Daily...
...Joey. Revival of a topnotch Rodgers & Hart musical with a brilliantly tough John O'Hara book about a sexy rich lady who turns on her heel (TIME...
Before last week, the course had been run only twice. In 1938 Dick Durrance did it in twelve minutes; a year later, Austria's Toni Matt went down wide open in the seemingly unbelievable time of 6 min. 29 sec. This year, 13 topnotch skiers made up their minds to try it despite the foul weather-not from the summit, but from a point three-quarters of the way up the mountain...
...humor was secondbest. Williams did score a bull's-eye with a minor yarn, Mr. Chops. If a showman as gifted as Emlyn Williams ever goes to work on the great comic figures in Dickens -Pecksniff, Micawber, Sairey Gamp, Mrs. Jellyby, the Wellers-he should achieve a truly topnotch show...
Death by the Window. When General Manager Rudolf Bing decided to overhaul Carmen last spring, he handed the staging job to Tyrone Guthrie, topnotch director of London's Old Vic, and Designer Rolf Gerard. From the start, they decided on "naturalism," e.g., the workers in a Seville cigarette factory ought to look, for a change, a bit like factory workers...