Word: toppered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next night Harry Truman took off his Democrats' hat, picked up his social topper and escorted Bess to a full-dress reception in their honor at Washington's staid Congressional Club. There the President gave each one of the 500 guests a hearty handshake and a good word, beamed approvingly as the red-coated Marine orchestra played music from South Pacific, and took a disparaging sip of the nonalcoholic fruit punch...
When he hove into view-a gallant, smiling, if somewhat aging figure, sitting his white, 16-year-old steed, Topper, with the assurance born of a hundred B westerns-pandemonium was certain to reign. The screams, the whistles, the volleys of exploding caps which racket up whenever he rides through the ranks of his wriggling idolaters would probably outdo anything ever heard during the games of ancient Rome...
Theaters & Mountains. More than ever, her son-a slender, reserved and intelligent kid-became the center of Libby Holman's life. They went on long trips together and worked at summer theaters, Libby as a performer, Topper as a stagehand. She visited him often at Putney School in Vermont, and stood by proudly last June when 17-year-old Topper, chairman of Putney's student council, graduated near the top of his class. This summer, Libby toured Europe. Topper went to California with Stephen Wasserman, a classmate, to work in one of the mines owned by Stephen...
Fortnight ago, Topper Reynolds and Stephen Wasserman packed their climbing gear and headed up 14,496-ft. Mt. Whitney, highest peak in the U.S. About 10,000 feet up, they abandoned the easy trail to the top and decided to scale Whitney's sheer, slippery 1,400-ft. east face, a cliff which had been scaled only once. They did not return...
...afternoon last week, searchers found the broken, frozen body of Stephen Wasserman. He had fallen 800 feet. Two days later, searchers found the body of Topper Reynolds jammed into a crevice high up on the cliff. Libby Holman, who had hurried home from Europe, got the bad news as she stepped from her plane, and a few moments later she collapsed...