Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally he collapsed completely from the effects of a large and mysterious wound and was removed for a quick vulcanizing job. By the time he got back on duty, the day before the convention opened, he was probably history's most famous captive balloon...
...Welby Van Horn. After five grueling sets, Big Jake wobbled to the marquee none too pleased about his narrow victory: "My racket felt like a baseball bat." Two days later he squared off against ex-Champion Don Budge. Again Big Jake was carried to five sets. Budge's famous backhand was never better, but at 33, his stamina was not so good. Despite all the tea and sugar he consumed, Budge collapsed in the fifth set, won only one point...
...another portrait-a self-portrait-held special interest for the great and famous who had felt the stings and stabs of Topolski's pencil. How did the plump, 41-year-old artist see himself? In the portrait, Topolski pictured himself in a highly dramatic light, modestly or perhaps fearfully shielding his eyes from the glare. "I am," he explained to a critic, "an awed, mystified, laughing and crying member of the humanity that watches and participates in the spectacle of history, but is unable to direct it or reason...
Sleepy Hollow (based on Washington living's Legend of Sleepy Hollow; book & lyrics by Russell Maloney, Miriam Battista and Ruth Hughes Aarons; music by George Lessner; produced by Lorraine Lester) is passably tuneful and monumentally tedious. Washington Irving's famous yarn of lanky, spindle-necked Ichabod Crane-who was as ill-starred in love as in looks and was chased into immortality by the Headless Horseman-would seem likely material for a musical. It comes equipped with standard light-operatic fixtures: period atmosphere, picturesque locale, broad humor, folkish fantasy; it seems a cinch to wire for dancing...
...others, "you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life." Out of the depths of his heart and personal experience, he drew How to Win Friends and Influence People. Today, wiry, white-maned Dale Carnegie is one of the world's richest authors and most famous men. He has recovered his faith in God and man and is kingpin of the Dale Carnegie Institute of Effective Speaking and Human Relations, whose system is used in 150 U.S. cities. "I can honestly say," says he, "that I have never spent a day or an hour . . . lamenting...