Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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York Corner is two miles from the Atlantic Ocean at York Harbor, now a popular summer resort and the locale of one of the finest beaches on the Maine coast. Charles Plaisted was born in his father's home on nearby Cider Hill and, like him, became a farmer and a Democrat. He has voted in every Presidential election since 1872 (Ulysses S. Grant v. Horace Greeley). He married the girl next door, and they were together for 64 years until she died. Although his nephews now run the 125-acre dairy farm, "Uncle Charlie" insists on doing...
...town, usually in the rugged, desolate mountain country around Hsingsien. By last fall, he was in Shichiachuang, the Reds' administrative center on the western edge of the rich North China plain. Then, following the Red army's advance, he returned home to his Yenan cave. His popularity among his followers was greater than ever. Everywhere Mao went, his words were noted down by breathless disciples. Some observers feel that Mao is getting too popular-and too powerful-for his own good...
...plenty of time to play chamber music with his good friend and neighbor, Artur Rubinstein, and with Vladimir Horowitz when he dropped in-not to mention an occasional jam session, with Heifetz rolling out such items as Gut-Bucket Gus and Jim Jives on the piano. As for his popular composing (When You Make Love to Me-TIME, Oct. 21, 1946), Heifetz grins: "I've divorced that fellow Jim Hoyl" (his Tin Pan Alley alias...
...present format is probably temporary. In radio's infancy, back in 1928, "one of the most popular types of programs was organ music." There may be equally radical changes in TV, since "it is a field where there is no established taste, no formula...
Only the Dead Live. Like many another writer, Conan Doyle was convinced that his most popular pieces (the Holmes stories) were mere potboilers. Full of love of the vanished days of chivalry and armored knights, he poured his heart into what he considered his "serious" fiction: The White Company, Sir Nigel, Micah Clarke. But soon he realized that that man Holmes was stalking him as remorselessly as if he were a criminal. He tried to shake Holmes off by demanding "impossible" prices for Holmes stories-only to find that the publisher gladly paid up. Doyle became rich on Holmes...