Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been simply another historical drama. Actually, it is far more than that; it is a careful portrayal of a very human character. So masterful is the direction and acting, and so vivid is the resulting picture of Napoleon, that if for no other reason, "Conquest" is an outstanding success...
...race in the South. He owns a large tenant farm, the bank and general store in its Negro settlement of 300, a fortune estimated at $100,000 and a colored baseball te?m. He lives in Memphis in the height of comfort. Credit for all this worldly success, Negro Claybrook, who never went to school, ascribes to his "mother...
...outwitting a dictator to get one's husband out of his clutches, the first rule is to keep quiet until success is complete. Last week U. S. Airman Harold ("Whitey") Dahl, who was captured by the Rightists while fighting for the Leftists, sentenced to death and then reprieved (TIME, Oct. 18, et ante), had every reason to wish that his wife had not burbled, "I used on General Franco all the sob technique I learned in my years on the stage." In appealing by letter to Franco to save Whitey, Mrs. Dahl enclosed a picture of her handsome self...
...round-trip flight between St. Paul and Seattle, presently started an airline between Spokane and St. Paul. Though part of this route spans some of the most tortured country in the U. S. and there were no radio beacons or even lights in those days, Nick Mamer's success convinced the U. S. Post Office that the run was feasible. Northwest Airlines, which had begun flying between Chicago and St. Paul in 1926, thereupon absorbed both Nick Mamer and his route, eventually shoved on to Seattle. By last week Northwest Airlines had flown some 72,000,000 passenger-miles...
Pins and Needles is the Labor Stage revue that opened in Manhattan as a week-end show, became such a success that it is now playing nightly to a packed house. Its amateur cast was recruited entirely from members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, a potent part of C. I. 0. Actors' Equity is a member of the rival A. F. of L. Last week A. F. of L.'s Equity claimed Pins and Needles' C. I. 0. amateurs as full-fledged, money-making actors, will bill them for dues ($6 to $18 annually...