Word: fame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...square mile of stockyards and packing plants on Chicago's South Side long gave the city a distinctive aroma, inspired poets and reformers. Carl Sandburg hailed Chicago as "Hog Butcher for the World." Novelist Upton Sinclair achieved fame with The Jungle, and it was a major factor in the passage of the nation's pure food laws. Sinclair was so revolted by the packing industry that he wound up the book with a prophecy that some day Chicago's great packing industry would wither away. Last week economics was doing what reformers had failed to accomplish. Armour...
...Roosevelt (Teddy Jr.), whose gallant but futile struggle to achieve greatness in the shadow of his father's fame is astutely chronicled by his widow. See BOOKS...
...last of these complaints came last week, with passionate and justified indignation, from Marcello Orano, 56, once a successful author and one of Italy's popular heroes, now with no claim to fame save as Europe's best known and worst treated leper. One of a family prominent in education and government, Orano was a dashing cavalier who served as a colonial official in Africa, wrote novels (three of them made into prewar movies), had a bewildering succession of marital relationships, and once turned Moslem...
...peak years (1906-12) with the Chicago White Sox, pitched a record total of 464 innings in one season, but was so overworked that he faded fast in his early 303. He never made more than $6,500 a year, and although elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1946, had to eke out a living on a pittance of a pension...
Poison Gas & the Y. It is this quality of a woman's pride in her husband, "cloaked inevitably and perpetually by the shadow of his father's fame," that lifts these meticulous, glittering reminiscences by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. into the category of memorable U.S. biography. Her book is dedicated to her belief that Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887-1944) is an undiscovered great American...