Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...readers with his offhand account of a lurid, turbulent life as an agent of both the Ogpu and Gestapo. He later admitted he had added the experiences of other men "to make the book as effective as possible," was roundly denounced by Communists as a faker. But his fame was his undoing: he admitted that he had once before been deported by the U.S., that he had committed perjury -both grounds for deportation...
These qualities have made Berlin famous and deserving of much of his fame. It is his lack of self-criticism that really spoils his songs. Even Berlin's most devout followers can't deny that his tunes get repetitions. By itself the score of "Holiday Inn" is certainly above the average run of Tin Pan Alley drivel. But when you have already heard his output for the past twenty years--and who hasn't?--the score seems pale and derivative...
Baldish, bespectacled, 45-year-old Thornton Niven Wilder made news many times before last week. In 1927 he bounced to fame with his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which sold over 250,000 copies and won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1935 his novel Heaven's My Destination, which he described as "diluted Dante," was a Book-of-the-Month choice and a subject for heated discussion. Then & there forswearing fiction for the theater, he emerged in 1938 with Our Town, whose sceneryless stage flabbergasted Broadway, fetched another Pulitzer Prize...
...sour, belated news that some of his men were captives of Japanese (TIME, Nov. 2) and that many of his planes had crashed after dropping their bombs did not cloud Jimmy Doolittle's fame. Nor did it tinge the devotion of the Tokyo flyers who returned with or followed him to the U.S. Last week, in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, three of them eagerly scanned the news of Jimmy in Africa and wanted to be with him. They remembered that Doolittle, during the flight to Tokyo, roamed all over his plane, taking notes on likely improvements. They...
...fame increased Sarah's expenses faster than her income. She decided to recoup her debts in the U.S. Americans received her with open arms: "Some half-dozen Bernhardts claimed to be her father, one in Philadelphia being particularly insistent." (Mother Julie's carelessness in such matters had left some doubt about Sarah's paternity...