Word: topnotcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world. On a submarine-chaser during the War, Sailor Loomis has spent most of the years since then scudding about the world in small sailboats. A veteran of one transatlantic, two Fastnet, four Bermuda races, he is an accepted authority on small-boat sailing, the author of severa topnotch nautical books. Last week, as he stood on Brilliant's deck watching victory slip from his grasp, there was published in Manhattan another top-notch Loomis book, Ocean Racing,* the first thoroughgoing history of this hazardous sport of rich...
...March day last week's concert was first announced, every seat in Carnegie Hall was sold at topnotch prices within a few hours. Subsequent demands fairly exhausted the patience of the box-office staff. One person would argue that he had never heard a Toscanini performance, that this was therefore his last chance. The next in line would claim that he had attended all the Maestro's concerts, that he could not miss the last. Speculators were offered $100 and more for a ticket. In Portland, Ore. a music-lover was ready to charter a plane, ily East...
...Alvan Tracy Simonds, a topnotch U. S. capitalist with a brain. A member of the Simonds Saws family, he is president of prosperous Simonds Saw & Steel Co. of Fitchburg, Mass. Six years ago he and his two brothers decided to put their century-old business into an astonishing new factory: one five-acre room without windows. Executives and machines were to work side by side, their noises deadened by sound-absorbing ceilings; machines were to be bright orange against black floors to prevent accidents by making everything conspicuous; walls and ceilings, part blue to reflect ultraviolet rays, part green...
...writer. "They go to see a picture, look up at the doll on the screen and say to themselves: 'What the hell, anything she can do I can do.' " What Helen Hayes subsequently did in Hollywood won her one of the little gold statuettes which are the topnotch mark of merit of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, for her performance in The Sin of Madelon Claudet, which Husband MacArthur wrote for her cinema...
...school but alumni were apathetic. His project was finally converted into the gaudy, bustling School of Business, endowed with a whacking $6,000,000 by the late George Fisher Baker. So widespread was the apathy toward public service that when the New Deal created the first great demand for topnotch civil servants, no major university had a graduate school to train them. The fact that Harvard did contribute the greatest number of young New Deal recruits was largely an accident. They were not the products of any special training for public service but prot...