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...year income and custody of their three children. Two weeks later Marshall Field married Mrs. Audrey James Coats, socialite god- daughter of King Edward VII, widow of a British Army captain. Last October she, too, flew to Reno. That same week the wifeless multimillionaire gallantly shouldered the responsibility for topnotch U. S. music by accepting the presidency of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, personally contributed large sums to its deflated exchequer. Marshall Field was active in the management of his grandfather's store only when he sat down to board meetings as a director. If he could be said...
Minister of Finance: Senator Marcel Régnier of the moderate Left, Budget Reporter since 1933 and a great croaker for economy but not considered to have a topnotch fiscal brain...
With focal infection as his theme the Billings Lecturer must be an eminent clinician, a topnotch diagnostician, a wise interpreter of the symptoms which a patient brings to his examination room. Billings Lecturers in the past have included such front-rank men as Dr. Joseph Leggett Miller, professor of clinical medicine at the University of Chicago, specialist in vaccine therapy and rheumatism; Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner, Cornell professor of medicine, editor of the American Heart Journal; Dr. James Bryan Herrick of Chicago, specialist in diseases of the heart and blood vessels; the late William Sydney Thayer (1864-1932), 1928 president...
...conventional stagecraft is chiefly the art of illusion, the technique by which an accomplished monologist makes real a panel of wholly imaginative characters is sheer sorcery. At performing the hardest of the theatre's tricks, Monologist Cornelia Otis Skinner is a topnotch sorceress...
...technicians and scientists which President Roosevelt year ago set to studying the use and control of water in the Mississippi Valley. For chairman the President had chosen a sturdy, handsome, enthusiastic Philadelphian whom he, as Governor of New York, had put on that State's Power Authority. A topnotch consulting engineer and one-time president of the Taylor ("Scientific Management") Society, Morris Llewellyn Cooke was an old hand at broad-gauge planning through service on the War Industries Board and the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care. As members of PWA's Mississippi Valley Committee...