Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's when Jackson just happened to meet the premier boxing afficionado in New England--Harvard alum Peter Fuller (of Cadillac fame)--at a meeting of the Visiting Committee on Athletics. A start-up grant from the Fuller Foundation and advertising sponsorships gave Jackson the operating expense money needed to haul in the Boston Garden's portable boxing ring for tonight's affair...
...clubhouse a statement to the effect that I, under favorable conditions, had driven a golf ball 489 1/2 yards, no particulars being given. The result was that for a short time, until the facts were known, I enjoyed the undeserved reputation of being a tremendous driver, and my fame spread as far as Boston...
...Missouri farm, Kelly left home at 19 seeking his fortune as a cartoonist in Kansas City. A series of jobs painting sideshow banners and Kewpie dolls drew him to the Big Top, and in 1922 he joined a small troupe as an aerialist-clown. He achieved lasting fame when he broke with the white-faced clown tradition to create the ragtag Willie, who delighted millions of circus fans with his soulful stares while nibbling on a cabbage, or misguided attempts to sweep up a moving spotlight with a broom...
...major primitives of modern art, Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) and Alfred Wallis (1855-1942), never experienced such affection and fame in their own lifetimes-which, admittedly, were shorter than that of Anna Mary Robertson Moses, who died in Eagle Bridge, N.Y., in 1961 at the age of 101. By then, she had received two honorary doctorates, and a 6? stamp had been issued to commemorate her; Edward R. Murrow had put her on television; New York State had twice declared Grandma Moses Day; her work had been exhibited round the world and interminably reproduced on greeting cards. Next to Norman...
...indefatigable diarist, a sometime poet, novelist and Spanish dancer, a Boswellian collector of literary friends and a flamboyant promoter of her small but genuine talents. Ironically, her death two years ago at age 73 preceded by only a few months the general fame she had courted so long. The source of this attention was a cache of erotic stories she had written, for cash, in the early 1940s; her patron was an anonymous collector who told her to "leave out the poetry and descriptions of anything but sex" and paid her a dollar a page. Published posthumously under the title...