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...trouble with this plan as expressed here is that it is too difficult to win a major letter. Men may be in the top ten of the country in their events and still be unable to earn the major "Y". For instance, this year Burns, topnotch Eli backstroker, is one of the six or seven best in the country, but because Princeton and Harvard happen to have equally outstanding backstrokers he may not earn a letter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Watches Progress of Movement Making Swimming Major Sport Here | 2/23/1938 | See Source »

...producers decided that such wantonness would never go down, so Jack Buchanan was allowed wife No. 2 only because he thought No. 1 was lost in a shipwreck. Unfortunately for the show, this unworkable narrative contrivance does not go down so well either, but the music and dancing are topnotch, and Howard Dietz's lyrics are vastly superior to his book. When Jack Buchanan stops shuttling between boudoirs, he sings the best of the Schwartz tunes, By Myself, in an impressive top-hat manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Musicals in Manhattan: Jan. 3, 1938 | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...famed Dean Robert Maynard Hutchins of Yale Law School. Next day Hutchins telephoned from New Haven, hired Bill Douglas to teach law at Yale. There he was director of bankruptcy studies, collaborated with the Department of Commerce in the same field, did so well that he achieved the topnotch berth of Sterling Professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bill and Billy | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...before, was hopeless. But Bowman was getting nearer to his destined specialty. On his way to Detroit to take a job in an automobile plant, he met a chewing-gum salesman who was working the ''butcher knife deal." Within a year J. Warren Bowman himself was a topnotch gum salesman, exponent of the "Indian blanket deal" (one blanket with every 24 boxes) and part owner of a plant in Lansing, Mich., which turned out a 1? gum called "Ju-Ce-Kiss." In 1927 he started his own plant in Philadelphia, in 1929 produced Blony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bowman's Bubbles | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

With all this complexity to go on, plus the fact that Deep Soundings is published by the remote Caxton Printers of Caldwell, Idaho, readers may find themselves wondering which of the topnotch U. S. adventure writers - Hawthorne, Daniel Eugene Cunningham, Zane Grey, Barrett Willoughby, Norman Reilly Raine, Ernest Haycox. Max Brand. Albert Richard Wet-jen-mysterious Alan Corby might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Submarine Fighter | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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