Word: fame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blond, long-legged (6 ft., 185 Ibs.) "Opie" Weyland, California-born Texas A. & M. graduate, made his first general's fame as head of the XIX Tactical Air Command, which supported General George S. Patton Jr.'s Third Army on its advance through France and Germany. High point: Weyland's planes protected Patton's southern flank during the first streak to the Seine ("You do the worrying about my flank," said Patton), strafed 20,000 German troops so mightily that they surrendered to U.S. airpower...
...Rapids in 1893, one year after his German-born father established a furniture factory there. At 13 he was put to work in the factory, 16 years later was its general manager. The family firm still employs fewer than 100 workers, but Fritz Mueller has spread its name and fame by being a prodigious civic-affairs man-president of the Grand Rapids Furniture Makers Guild, the local United Hospital Fund, the Chamber of Commerce, and football-boosting member of the governing board of Michigan State University (he holds an honorary M.S.U. doctor of laws degree and a gold-engraved lifetime...
Mimicry is a compliment that talent pays to fame. In new novels, two talented fledgling writers pay their respects to F. Scott Fitzgerald, dazzled poet of enchanted youth, and to John P. Marquand, the wry prosist of disenchanted middle...
...then, with fame sweetening the air, the world champion went about the business of cashing in. Two days after his homecoming, Ingo hit the road on an exhibition tour aimed at earning $50,000, climbed into the ring for a few friendly rounds with brother Rolf, an amateur boxer. At Osthammar, some 3,000 fans crowded in (at $1 a head) to watch in vain for The Punch, chuckle at the champ's cries ("Throw me some mosquito oil"), and cheer happily when the referee solemnly declared him the winner...
...print, the character is so frostily repellent that most grand Shakespeareans have agreed with the Romans, and exiled him. But it was in a 1938 Old Vic production of Coriolanus that a stamping, ranting Olivier bulled his way to fame. This time his performance is subtler. His Coriolanus is prickly in triumph, venomous in defeat, an uncompromising totalitarian. But Olivier also builds a credible, Nietzschean human being, a sarcastic soldier-aristocrat and sour-eyed supersnob of the type well known to the British. Wrote the London Times: "The acting of Sir Laurence Olivier has grown marvelously in power and beauty...