Word: topnotchers
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...writer. "They go to see a picture, look up at the doll on the screen and say to themselves: 'What the hell, anything she can do I can do.' " What Helen Hayes subsequently did in Hollywood won her one of the little gold statuettes which are the topnotch mark of merit of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, for her performance in The Sin of Madelon Claudet, which Husband MacArthur wrote for her cinema...
...such as these before them last week, the peers, walking two by two in reverse order of precedence, solemnly entered the House of Lords, each doing his best to take a back seat. Thus the dukes, who entered last, found nothing vacant except the front seats appropriate to their topnotch status...
...school figures, won her first national women's championship at 16. Since then, she has won the U. S. title every year except 1934, when she journeyed abroad, finished third in the European championship. At Radcliffe, in addition to skating, she participated in collegiate theatricals, became a topnotch ballroom dancer, sculled vigorously on the Charles, played a fast game of tennis, rode horseback. Vivacious, chic, unmarried, she has more recently won the admiration of the staff of the New York Times, for which she writes a competent by-line account of women's sports. Only one peculiarity mars...
Henry Clay Frick died in 1919. His house was untouched until Mrs. Frick followed him in 1931. Since then their capable, ginger-haired daughter Helen has made the Frick art collection her career, almost her religion. With her own funds she assembled and housed a topnotch art library next door to her father's house (TIME, Jan. 21). As the most active member of the trustees of the $15,000,000 fund that was left to administer the collection, she has weeded out and improved her father's public legacy in the past four years until...
...school but alumni were apathetic. His project was finally converted into the gaudy, bustling School of Business, endowed with a whacking $6,000,000 by the late George Fisher Baker. So widespread was the apathy toward public service that when the New Deal created the first great demand for topnotch civil servants, no major university had a graduate school to train them. The fact that Harvard did contribute the greatest number of young New Deal recruits was largely an accident. They were not the products of any special training for public service but prot...