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...Practical Duties, Army Morale, and Graven Registration. Younger at fifty than most men of thirty, he looks back upon two years and five engagements in the First World War as a member of the 28th Division Field Hospital in France. He enjoys a solid reputation as a composer to topnotch polyphonic religious music, including several motets, a setting for the pontifical processional "Ecce Sacordes Magnus," and a man in honor of St, Jude. No less solid is his reputation as a composer of hit parade ballads, including "Lonesome," which was written for Helen Morgan, "The Moon in Here...
Spreading Thin. The American Bureau for Medical Aid to China (now part of United China Relief) is represented in China by Dr. George W. Bachman. Though 52-year-old Dr. Bachman speaks in platitudes ("I am looking out for a way to help the war effort"), he is a topnotch scientist with a talent for organization. From 1918 to 1922 he lived in China, teaching biology at Huping College. When the Bureau sent him to Chungking last April he had for eleven years been director of Columbia University's famed School of Tropical Medicine in Puerto Rico...
Waupun, Wis. On the walls of Publisher George W. Greene's office at the Waupun Leader-News are 15 ribbons and plaques given him for topnotch editorial writing, newspaper promotion, civic enterprise. The people of Waupun, a center of the dairy industry (pop. 5,768, including the State prison's 1,600-odd prisoners) are proud of their newspaper, for it ranks with the best U.S. weeklies...
Between the lines of a formal announcement, that Alvin J. (for John) Steinkopf, until Pearl Harbor a topnotch Associated Pressman in Europe, had joined radio station WBBM of Chicago as a news analyst, there was last week the story of a new relationship developing between A.P. and radio...
Aside from his running mate, fullback Tom O'Leary, who is a topnotch plunger, the Royal Blue has no outstanding backs and the line is green...