Word: topping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highly effective. Throughout the tenseness of the investigation, one of the policemen persists in talking to the embassy in lumbering French, although they always reply in perfect English. And the come logic of a child's mind is played for its full charm. Bobby Henrey as Felipe gives the top performance of a well-acted movie. There is none of the sentimental cuteness about him that makes some child stars so objectionable; he acts like an authentic small boy. All through the film, there are glimpses of the "small boy" world...
...asked Vice Admiral John Dale Price, Denfeld's vice chief of operations and an airman, to stay on at his job until spring. After that, Rear Admiral Lynde Dupuy McCormick, a submariner, now boss of the 12th Naval District, will become vice chief. The Navy's two top jobs are usually split between a seagoing admiral and an airman. Sherman abolished Operation 23, which had been disseminating anonymous pro-Navy propaganda during the months of political feuding, but took no punitive action against its directors...
...also made it plain that he had not become CNO to preside over the liquidation of the Navy. As the first up-from-the-cockpit air admiral ever to achieve the top job of the service, he was for keeping naval aviation strong, and said so. None of this meant that he would have any easy time in restoring harmony. But it made Navy hotheads reconsider: Sherman, an officer of sharp intellect and steely determination, would probably be able to argue the Navy's case, within the limits of unification, better than anyone in the service...
...still unsettled point is the relationship between colds and allergies, though doctors admit that a layman doesn't much care what ails him, so long as he is promptly cured. Dr. William J. Kerr of the University of California's Medical School, a top authority on the subject, believes that only 25% of cold symptoms are due to allergy. Arguing from this thesis, he takes a dim view of anti-histaminics as cold cures. Said he: "To get one shot out of four wouldn't be very good hunting-and it's lousy medicine...
...Down. Brokenshire reached the top of his trade with such other pioneers as Milton Cross and Ted Husing (both still in radio), Harry von Zell (now in movies and radio on the West Coast) and the late Graham McNamee. By 1930 he had also hit the bottom, and was trying the first of many comebacks. It failed when, after a couple of years, Chesterfield fired him for unreliability...