Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beneath Helen Jacobs' first wish to be a tennis player there must have been a furious hope to be like her famed neighbor. The irony of her success was that the more she became like Helen Wills the more dramatically she emphasized the differences between them. For Helen Wills Moody to defeat her on the tennis court with superb, indifferent ease ? at Wimbledon in 1929 and 1932, at Forest Hills in 1928 and 1931?became a matter of routine. While Helen Wills Moody was feted in London and Paris, Helen Jacobs was mentioned in the newspapers as the unfortunate...
...Pennsylvania Railroad donated four carloads of cinders. High-school teachers lectured their pupils about it. Gas and insurance companies enclosed its circulars with their bills. Shops dressed their windows with pictures of correct attire for the occasion. Radio stations ballyhooed it. All this massed effort was to make a success of the Robin Hood Dell concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which last summer ceased abruptly two weeks ahead of time, leaving a $20,000 deficit...
...When Faith Baldwin had published 28 books, including a dozen best selling romances about modern business women (The Office Wife, Week-End Marriage, Self-Made Woman, White Collar Girl), she decided that her public might like to read a family saga. Mazo de la Roche had made a phenomenal success with her Jalna books. Last year Faith Baldwin plunged into a set of serious novels tracing the development of a typical middle class family from its U. S. beginning to the present. Partly sober realism, partly sugary sentiment, American Family promptly became the best selling of all Faith Baldwin...
...when she turned out a play characteristically called The Deserted Wife. Neighbors in the quiet Fort Hamilton district of Brooklyn knew her as the wife of a Brooklyn businessman, the mother of three sons and a daughter, unobtrusively active in Brooklyn Junior League affairs, when the sensational success of Alimony in 1928 suddenly lifted her from the status of routine magazine contributor to that of a popular favorite...
Small, dark-eyed, prolific Author Baldwin took quick advantage of her first success, and at great speed, using the amateur's hunt and peck system, in the next five years typed out 16 serials as well as many a short story. Her grammar was shaky, her punctuation poor, but rates for her work increased steadily, until she now receives more than $50,000 for each of her magazine serials, is approaching Kathleen Norris' top mark of approximately $75,000 a serial for three serials a year. Unlike Romancer Norris, who can carry on a conversation and manage...