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Warm Embrace. The only topnotch painter shown at peak performance was Buffalo's Charles Burchfield, who had somehow managed to slip a watercolor into an exhibition of oils. His Dark Ravine was menacing as an abyss by Fuseli, but richer, and lacking all pretension...
...next new production, due in December: Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus, staged by Broadway and Hollywood's topnotch director, Garson Kanin...
...White House rose garden, President Truman presented the Harmon international aviation trophy, topnotch aviation award, to the outstanding aviator, aviatrix and aeronaut of the past decade: Lieut. General James H. Doolittle, wartime boss of the Eighth Air Force, leader of the first Tokyo raid; Jacqueline Cochran, wartime head of WASP, and dirigible expert Vice Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl (retired), wartime chief of Naval Airship Training...
Walter Chrysler, a topnotch railroad mechanic, had no idea how to drive. He hired a team of horses to haul the car home from the freight office in Oelwein, Iowa. But he spent three months taking it apart and putting it together again. By that time, he had a pretty good notion of how an automobile worked...
...Saracini's 80 rooms. This summer, some 250 youngsters from 30 countries are playing, singing and waving batons in the palazzo's luxurious galleries and chambers. By month's end, the 70 most talented of them will have started an intensive two-month course under such topnotch musicians as Violinist-Composer Georges Enesco, Guitarist Andres Segovia and Conductor Paul van Kampen. In September, a score or more of the best students will have Chigi-sponsored debuts...