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During last week's commencement exercises at Fisk University in Nashville, slender Mary Greta Howard, 23, got her reward for two years' graduate study: a master's degree in race relations. Her academic record was topnotch, but she enjoyed an even rarer distinction. All but three of Fisk's 800 students are Negroes. Mary was the first white student to get a Fisk degree since the 1890s and one of relatively few whites who have earned a degree from a Negro college...
...your story on the 45th Infantry Division (TIME, May 3). During my military service, I guess I griped as much as any other GI. But the 14 months in Korea that I wore the Thunderbird patch on my left sleeve were proud ones . . . Thanks for your tribute to a topnotch outfit...
...acting is not uniformly topnotch, perhaps because the film, though made in Italy, is spoken mostly in English, a language some of the actors are not very familiar with. But whatever the rest of the cast may lack is more than made up by Anna Magnani. Not since she emerged in Open City, as a sort of back-alley Duse, has Magnani pelted an audience with so much juicy histrionic fruit. She raves, she twitters, she hauls off and slugs. In one astonishing scene, a whole bullfight transpires in her face far more impressively than it could have been shown...
Some of the biggest steps toward improving salesmanship have been taken by the manufacturers. A big West Coast maker of women's coats and suits keeps five sales teams on the road at all times. When a team visits a town, it rents a topnotch hotel suite, puts on a dinner and fashion show for the salesgirls of its retail outlet, tells them all about the products they are selling. After such a show, sales jump 20% to 40% almost immediately. But many businessmen have been slow to adopt such tactics...
...November, having set the stage, Sergeev prepared his biggest coup: he invited ten eminently respectable, topnotch Greek editors, politicians and educators (plus one fellow-traveling newsman) to visit Soviet Russia and see the proletarian heaven for themselves. Last week they were back after 25 days, and twelve of Athens' 14 newspapers were carrying their combined story, "What We Saw in the Soviet Union...