Word: topnotcher
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...been the victim of phenomenally bad luck, both in & out of court. Wearer of three rows of ribbons, including a Silver Star for gallantry in the Solomons, a topnotch officer (according to Admiral Raymond A. Spruance), handsome, 47-year-old McVay had had his ship-and perhaps his career-shot out from under him 16 days before...
...Navy was afraid it was licked. In its extremity, this week, it prepared a compromise. Jim Forrestal and topnotch Naval Aviator Rear Admiral Arthur Radford will go before the Senate committee with something new-the Navy's own plan for merger, based on the elaborate report made for the Navy some time ago by Investment Banker Ferd Eberstadt. The compromise lay in the possible creation of a Secretary of Air, which Eberstadt had proposed but which Forrestal has hitherto rejected. Main features of the plan...
Lock Step. The faculty had been strengthened with topnotch men drafted from civilian colleges. In 1941 the Academy had gathered unto itself J. Buroughs Stokes, a young educator with a doctor's degree from Harvard, had given him a commission and made him Assistant Secretary of the Academic Board...
Bill Laurence has known more about the atomic bomb, at every stage of its development, than any other reporter. A topnotch newsman for the New York Times, he had watched, and ably reported, almost every big science story for 15 years. An intense, untidy little man with odd habits (he spent hours placing mirrors just-so in his apartment, so that no matter where he stood he could look out on Manhattan's East River), Laurence showed up at the Times pretty much when he pleased. He thought up his own assignments, often spent weeks on one story...
ABSIE's pride & joy were its musical programs, as American as pie à la mode. According to captured Germans, the favorite Allied program heard in Germany was Music for the Wehrmacht, which featured songs by topnotch performers like Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore. Beaming almost a third of its air time to Germany, ABSIE had solid assurance that its efforts were not wasted. The Nazis tried jamming ABSIE broadcasts, answered ABSIE's news comments on their own stations...