Word: topnotchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, the Yale Record was a very funny magazine as I remember it, and the Lampoon was a very unfunny magazine. This paradox has been properly destroyed by the recent efforts of the two publications. The latest issue of the Lampoon contains some really topnotch cartoons and, more surprising, some amusing stories. The cartoon, "The New Overcoat," by Fred Gwynne, is timeless and rich enough to rate reprinting in the Lampoon in ten years or so, as will probably be the case...
What really makes a topnotch musical of Kiss Me, Kate is Cole Porter's score. If no one of its tunes equals Begin the Beguine or Get a Kick Out of You, all 17 of them have their good points, and together form a sort of triumphal procession. They range from the slow torching of So in Love Am I to the fast jive of Too Darn Hot, from the musical brio of We Open in Venice to the verbal lift of Always True to You (In My Fashion). And again & again melody and mockery go hand in hand...
Like any good businessman or golf pro, Ben Hogan loves to hear a dollar clink. Last year, his gross income ran to almost $90,000. Besides his tournament prize money, he drew down bonuses and royalties from MacGregor Golf, Inc., which uses his name on its topnotch golf clubs. He masterminds a ghost-written golf column for the McNaught Syndicate, and Power Golf has already sold 54,000 copies. He is pressed to give exhibitions, for which he charges $500 on weekdays, $700 on Saturdays and Sundays. Most of his money goes into the bank...
...Baltimore, a rock-ribbed racing town, the fans are used to topnotch jockeys; they have watched the likes of Earl Sande and Eddie Arcaro for years. But last week a 17-year-old "bug boy"† from Texas, Clarence Picou, had the town talking...
...misinterpretation of the early returns was a small part of a big problem that the A.P., brought up on strict factual reporting, still has to solve: how can it interpret complex news without losing its prized objectivity? Ex-A.P. man James B. ("Scotty") Reston, a topnotch interpretive reporter for the New York Times, and a guest speaker, let off a blast of steam on the subject: "I think [our] future depends on our developing adequate and intelligent means of explaining what is going on in the world. The news is getting more complicated every year...