Word: famous
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...invited the young Brazilian to be their guest of honor at luncheon as "the most popular man of the Negro race in the world." That was a touch of hyperbole, although there is no doubt that Edson Arantes do Nascimento, 26, otherwise known as Pelé, is the most famous athlete in the world-at least outside of the U.S. His soccer team, Santos, was in New York when the Harlem invitation came, Pele explained in a TV interview last week in São Paulo. "I learned that this had connotations of the racial struggle...
There are compensations for being the daughter of a famous father: one is that people write songs about you. Teddy Roosevelt's little girl, for example, inspired the 1919 ditty In My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown. Frank Sinatra's elder daughter prompted the 1944 lullaby, Nancy with the Laughing Face...
Like the late Maxwell E. Perkins, his editing idol, Thomas is famous for close rapport with his authors: "Some you get to know so well that you are aware of what they are going to say before you read their manuscripts." In the Manchester dispute, Thomas learned that rapport can sometimes turn sour. In 1955, Thomas helped persuade a bedridden Senator John Kennedy to turn a couple of his historical essays into a book, Profiles in Courage. He later edited Bobby Kennedy's account of his experiences with the McClellan crime committee investigations, The Enemy Within. But after...
...activity. Usually it is composed of statements from well-known people who have been converted to the idea of reading dynamics. Professor Stauffer of Delaware is probably the party's chief propagandist. But not to be overlooked are statements from prestigious non-experts such as Senator William Proxmire whose famous quotation is: "I must say that this was one of the most useful educational experiences I've ever had. It certainly compares favorably with the experiences I've had at Yale and Harvard...
...defeated, then the worried flight, the great, world-famous client cools his heels...