Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still on Bataan-was ordered by Quezon to remain behind as the head of the Philippine Government. Although Quezon later suggested that he come to the U.S., Manuel Roxas chose to stay (and was captured by the Japs on Mindanao). This decision was probably the turning point of his career. For when the first postwar elections came along, the Filipinos quite obviously preferred a man who had stayed behind to Sergio Osmeña, who had gone into exile...
When the Dial succumbed in 1929, its function had already been taken up by the Hound and Horn, founded by Lincoln Kirstein. Narrower in taste than the Dial, it printed avant-garde work of high standards. Its Henry James issue, near the end of its career in 1934, led the way to what had become ten years later almost a popular revival of the great novelist...
...Marriage of Inconvenience. Campion, as a young Oxford scholar, pleased the great Queen Elizabeth by his Latin and his charm. He might have enjoyed a rich career in the newly established Church of England. Campion chose Rome and danger. He found it improbable, his biographer says with an English convert's zeal, "that the truth, hidden from the world for fifteen centuries, had suddenly been revealed in the last few years to a group of important Englishmen...
...Randolph Hearst's top sports-byliner, he could make a silk purse out of a cauliflower ear. When Collier's ballyhooed a Runyon short story on its cover, newsstand sales sometimes went up 60,000 copies. But last week, at 65, Damon Runyon looked back at his career, and said he wished he had been playing Pagliacci instead...
Died. Louis Kroh Liggett, 71, founder of United-Rexall Drug Co. and the Liggett drugstore chain (502 stores); in Washington. A Scottish-Dutch boy from Detroit whose business career started inauspiciously when he was arrested for painting rows of red footsteps on the sidewalk leading to his first shop, he went on from there to help create the great American corner drugstore. His letters to the trade were famed among druggists. Sample: "Dear Pardner: . . . our Diarrhoea Cure is a great thing. Try it yourself. I have...