Word: famous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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gout. True enough, say Biochemist George Brooks and Social Psychologist Ernst Mueller, but the one-word diagnosis is far from complete. Those four famous men, along with many others, suffered from swollen, painful joints be cause their blood carried an excess of uric acid, which is a product of hu man metabolism. And the presence of that excess acid may explain their other basic similarities -their energetic and adventurous minds, their urge to ex cel and the high caliber of their achievement...
...bought a 96% share of the LaSalle Extension University of Chicago, a correspondence school, expanded its courses, and more than quadrupled sales by 1965. He went on to buy the Free Press of Glencoe, Inc., 111., and Science Materials, Inc.; he also invested in Famous Artists Schools of Westport, Esquire Inc., and in the book-publishing firm of Grosset & Dunlap. In 1962, for less than $1,000,000, he bought Brentano's, the 16-store chain of bookstores...
Winnie the Pooh and The Honey Tree turns the Disney animaters loose on a tribute to A. A. Milne's classic storybook characters. The drawings are a rough but not treasonable facsimile of the famous Shepard illustrations, pleasantly introducing Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Owl and Rabbit. It is the voices that sound dead wrong. Speaking for Pooh, Comedian Sterling Holloway makes Christopher Robin's friend seem a dry American, as if the world of Milne had collided in Disneyland with the world of Twain. And Pooh purists will certainly wince at a new batch of song lyrics, starting with...
...broadcast on the networks, the author of a favorably reviewed autobiographical novel (The Learning Tree-TIME, Sept. 6, 1963) and the composer of six musical works that have been performed from Venice to Manhattan. He also became a photographer and, as a LIFE staffer since 1949, Parks has become famous for his photographic work in both the dark world of the Negro slum and the gossamer land of high fashion...
...almost embarrassing diffidence. Among strangers, Lockheed Chairman Gross will go far out of his way to avoid admitting that he heads one of the nation's largest industrial corporations. To occupational questions from fellow airline travelers, he usually responds: "I'm in manufacturing." Recently a famous European actress seated beside him at a Hollywood dinner party asked the inevitable "What do you do?" Replied Gross: "I'm an aircraft mechanic." To his relief, the actress ignored him for the rest of the evening...