Word: successer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky emphatically told the world that the peace-loving Soviet was using atomic energy for peaceful purposes "right now" (TIME, Nov. 21). Said he at Lake Success: "We are razing mountains; we are irrigating deserts." But in reporting his speech, Pravda made a significant switch: it quoted Vishinsky as saying only that Russia's atomic energists wanted to raze mountains...
Walter Stuempfig is a stoop-shouldered Philadelphian with an unruly little mustache and a worried look. He has less to worry about than most artists, for at 35 Stuempfig is a solid critical and popular success: he has sold out three one-man shows in six years and won a reputation as the foremost young "romantic" painter in the U.S. Stuempfig's latest exhibition, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, did nothing to diminish that reputation, but it did raise a question : How romantic...
United Nations Sessions (Mon. thru Fri. 11 p.m. & 3 p.m., CBS-TV). Telecasts from Lake Success...
...Minneapolis audience welcomed the piece wholeheartedly, from the poignantly elegiac first movement to the brilliant and stirring folk dance at the end. Wrote Tribune Critic Norman Houk: "The Bartok concerto was a major success ... It was given an alert, keyed-up performance by a soloist, orchestra and conductor who had been working on the complex score for a strenuous week . . . A permanent and important addition to the viola repertory...
Dark Days. It was worth all the trouble; the Dallas Hilton was a whopping success. Hilton branched out throughout Texas and formed Hilton Hotels, Inc. (succeeded in 1946 by Hilton Hotels Corp.). When the depression hit, and an estimated 80% of all U.S. hotels went bankrupt, he was far overexpanded. He hurried from hotel to hotel, yanking out the room telephones and closing off some of the floors to cut costs. When a guest asked for ink, a bellhop would ceremoniously pour out enough to write one letter...