Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Around Us brought Rachel Carson fame and fortune but not much happiness. A marine biologist by training, she never married ("because I didn't have time"), lived with her ailing mother and an orphaned grandnephew whom she adopted. After resigning from her Washington job, she wrote another successful book, The Edge of the Sea, and though painfully shy lectured widely. Then, about six years ago, her old friends Stuart and Olga Huckins complained that anti-mosquito spraying had damaged birds in the two-acre nature sanctuary that they maintain near Duxbury, Mass. Thus was born Silent Spring...
...Italy's greatest industrial dynasties began only 25 miles and nine years apart, and rose with parallel vigor to worldwide fame. In Turin in 1899 Giovanni Agnelli established Fiat, destined to become Italy's leading auto producer. Nine years later, in sleepy Ivrea, Camillo Olivetti founded the typewriter company that became equally famous for its office machines. But fortune has not smiled equally on the two in recent years, and last week one dynasty had to bail out the other. Organizing support from a syndicate of banks and businessmen, Agnelli's grand son rounded up $50 million...
...hours that follow, she is all but the whole show. Funny Girl is a biographical evening about the late Fanny Brice, and ostensibly Barbra Streisand is re-creating her rise to fame and her ill-starred marriage to Nicky Arnstein, the gambler-sport. But Streisand establishes more than a wellrecollected Fanny Brice. She establishes Barbra Streisand. When she is on stage, singing, mugging, dancing, loving, shouting, wiggling, grinding, wheedling, she turns the air around her into a cloud of tired ions. Her voice has all the colors, bright and subtle, that a musical play could ask for, and gradations...
...still has the haggling instinct of her Brooklyn childhood and sometimes puts the weight of her new fame behind it, often insisting on discounts at local stores ("Listen, don't I deserve a discount or something? I mean, after all"), or ordering a secretary to "tell them that if they want my business, they'd better knock $2 off that bill...
Returning, he played Christ in a children's play, which led to a West End part, which led to a contract with the J. Arthur Rank Organization. His rising fame did not pass unnoticed by old Van den Bogaerde at the Times. He called his son on the phone one morning and tried a jolly joke. He had been walking through an underground passageway, he said, and had seen the name Bogarde on posters all over the walls. "You've brought the family name as low as you can," quipped father...