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Helped by Northwestern University's famed Surgeon Paul Magnuson, who had long wanted to team up veterans' hospitals with medical schools, Hawley began to train and attract topnotch doctors. Over the opposition of some big brass, he got a law taking the V.A. medical corps out of Civil Service and raising fees so that he might hire the ablest specialists as consultants...
Died. Pierre Lecomte du Noüy, 64, topnotch French scientist, philosopher; after long illness; in Manhattan...
Absolutely Topnotch. It all began in 1943, when dynamic Parson Walter Hussey, 38, was planning jubilee celebrations for his church's 50th anniversary. Says he: "I decided we'd have really absolutely topnotch performances of music and art -so why not approach the people at the very top of the tree? They could only refuse, and that wouldn't hurt me." When his father, Canon Hussey, who had been St. Matthew's first vicar, offered to make a jubilee presentation to the church, Hussey hurried off to see Sculptor Moore, whose smooth, tiny-headed figures...
Died. James Melvin ("Jimmie") Lunceford, 45, topnotch Negro bandleader famed for his skillful and studied renditions of warm to hot jazz; of coronary occlusion; in Seaside...
...which places it in a position unique on this continent. "Tanglewood," the Berkshire estate where Nathaniel Hawthorne reputedly wrote several of his major works, has become the summer home of more than four hundred music students from all over the world, who combine a summer of study under topnotch instructors with the chance to hear a baker's dozen of concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra...