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Fast Firing. In ten years, if all goes well, the U.S. will be equipped with guided missiles and proximity-fused spinning rockets. But right now the need is for a fast-firing, high-velocity 30-or 57-mm. cannon to fill the gap between pea shooters and rockets, and topnotch industrial engineers to design and produce them...
...head their church as moderator in the coming year, the Northern Presbyterians elected a longtime champion of denominational union, Kansas-born Dr. Harrison Ray Anderson, 58. A topnotch preacher who started out to be a sanitary engineer, then switched to the ministry and became a chaplain in World War I, he has served as pastor of Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church for the past 23 years. In his acceptance speech, Harrison Anderson denounced "the civic rottenness" that is blighting U.S. cities. "Let the Church of Jesus Christ become again the salt," he cried, "to be rubbed in-if necessary...
...picture's comic coloring of its familiar incidents sometimes comes close to falsifying them. But a skillful script, Vincente Minelli's brisk direction and another topnotch Tracy performance keep the humanity and the fun intact. Admirers of Father of the Bride will not be let down; all they have to fear now is that M-G-M will be tempted to go on working its father lode until the ore thins...
Seminars on Tuesday afternoons at the Faculty Club provide a peep into various areas of learning at the University, and dinners at the Signet every other Friday headline topnotch editors, correspondents, and publishers...
Guys and Dolls (Decca; 2 sides LP). With no topnotch singers and some out & out croakers, this original-cast recording of the Broadway hit still manages to be great...