Word: topnotchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...
Among the existing period courses, however, the American literature picture is especially well covered, with Matthiessen, Miller, and Murdock all presenting penetrating and stimulating courses. Levin is topnotch on drama, comparative literature, and criticism...
...time a Crum protégé reaches Allentown High, he should know the coach's system of "give-and-go" and "flooding the center-lane." Crum shows motion pictures to illustrate new plays, takes his players to Philadelphia to watch topnotch college teams. Before every game, a scout (who works at it full time) reports on the rival team's good & bad points. Last season 35,000 fans crammed into Allentown's gym to watch Crum's team...
...usual, there seemed to be no worry about paying the check. From anonymous sources came $528,000 to buy London's topnotch Westminster Theater for Buchmanite theatricals. And as a continental HQ, the Group acquired (for $250,000) the sumptuous, turreted Palace Hotel in the Swiss resort town of Caux, high above Lake Geneva. Renaming it "Mountain House," the Buchmanites moved in last summer and say they have kept it filled to its 700-person capacity ever since...