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Cordials & Bicarb. In Texas, where most of the cooking is so bad that bicarb has replaced the after-dinner cordial, many topnotch restaurants, such as Azzarelli's in Houston, are ignored. So many routine drive-ins are listed in Arkansas that top-drawer restaurateurs complain that their own stars pale in comparison...
...from Leeds's noted Chemist Frederick Dainton to Swansea's Novelist Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis. But not all redbrick dons are happy with their "exile" from cozy Oxbridge. Novelist Amis himself is shifting soon to Cambridge. Says Nobel Prizewinner Cecil Frank Powell, head of Bristol's topnotch (cosmic rays) physics department: "We've got Cambridge licked in our department-but Cambridge nevertheless has something we can never match...
...Should Command? Corpsmen would go in teams of five to ten with a topnotch leader. The GHQ: a small, new Government agency, probably headed by President Kennedy's brother-in-law, R. Sargent Shriver Jr., 45, a Chicago businessman. The agency would supply cash, corpsmen and coordination for the two main arms of the operation. In the U.S., private groups, such as foundations, universities, or the American Friends Service Committee, would propose projects abroad. In the host country, a binational board would have power to pass on projects and set local corps policy. The estimated cost is roughly...
While talented Negro soloists have become commonplace in the U.S., virtually no Negroes have mounted the podiums of major U.S. orchestras.* Last week, one did. Henry Lewis, 28, a bass player for ten years with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, was filling in for ailing Igor Markevitch, led a topnotch, widely acclaimed concert that included Dvorak's Fourth Symphony and Beethoven's concert aria Ah Perfido!, sung by Lewis' wife, Soprano Marilyn Home. Vigorous, sweeping Conductor Lewis had previously led the Seventh Army Orchestra and the Los Angeles String Society, a group he formed himself in 1958, will...
Rathbone's self-assured, calm efficiency and a record of building his subsidiary into a topnotch operating company won him the post of president of Esso Standard in 1944. He moved on to Jersey Standard's board of directors in 1949, became president in 1954, and took over as chairman of the executive committee and chief executive in 1960 when Eugene Holman resigned. "Getting along is the key to success," says Rathbone. "I've always been fortunate in being able to get people to work with...