Word: topnotch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of the Coca-Cola Co. to succeed William E. Robinson, 57, who moved up to chairman and will remain chief executive officer. Son of a minister, Alabama-born Talley went to Coca-Cola as a salesman right after Atlanta's Emory University, won a reputation as a topnotch troubleshooter, made his mark in Coke's hierarchy by putting some fizz into the Canadian subsidiary as its president. ¶Edgar A. Jones, 42, was named president of Greyhound's two-year-old Rent-A-Car subsidiary, whose success was largely responsible for a 7% increase in Greyhound...
Dartmouth is not as strong as Princeton, and probably not as strong as Cornell, but it outclassed the Crimson with topnotch speed and size. Its passing was sharp and its plays precise. At one point during the third quarter, the same play caught the varsity napping on three straight occasions...
Kraft Theater: In an effort to halt the long decline of TV's oldest continuous program, the Kraft Co. last month hired Talent Associates' David Susskind to put on a series of works by topnotch authors (among them: Robert Penn Warren, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway), gave the new executive producer full rein. Susskind's first venture was a package of three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, written back in the '30s when the grocer called him Tom and the postman brought him rejection slips. Moony...
Married. Frances Farmer, 43, onetime topnotch Hollywood leading lady (Come and Get It] who was committed to a mental hospital in 1943, is now making a comeback on TV; and Leland C. Mikesell, 53, West Coast radio-TV consultant; she for the third time, he for the first; in Las Vegas...
Golf-playing physicists have one big advantage-they know their physics. Hoping to improve his game (mid-80s), topnotch Physicist-Professor Luis W. Alvarez, 46, went about it scientifically, designed a stroboscopic golf-trainer. The electronic gadget allows the golfer to see "a series of positionally arrested images" of the club head and tell whether it is approaching the ball at the proper angle. The University of California physicist shipped one trainer to a fellow golfer in the White House, last week received a patent (No. 2,825,569) on his idea...