Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resumption of East-West trade. The Russians need time and a relaxation of tension to ease the satellite situation. Some Russians are calculating that Western Union will break down, that the U.S. may run into domestic economic trouble, and even that Henry Wallace may score an unexpected success...
Their formula for success is as simple as a C scale. Says Sammy: "We make our songs easy to remember and easy to sing. That's what Americans like-songs the guy in the locker room and the woman in the farmhouse can sing without a piano...
...Muny has tried to put on grand opera only four times, and with little success. Instead, it offers a first-rate production of light opera and musical comedy-with first-rate casts. Some summer-opera alumni: Irene Dunne, Gary Grant (he was then Archie Leach), Allan Jones...
...ripe for retelling. .There is even gold to be found in ransacking the closets of the 19205-the era of the flapper and the grimacing mobster, the devotees of sex dives and bathtub gin, the frilly esthetes and champions of companionate marriage. William Hodapp has pasted together, with some success, an anthology reflecting the era through its fiction. The stories provide dramatic evidence of how drastically and quickly the patterns of U.S. life can change during a lifetime...
After an hour's debate, the jury of six students was unable to reach a verdict, which was understandable, since both driver and pedestrian were at fault, and witnesses were undependable. Professor Joiner declared the trial a classroom success. "I thought we had a good thing here," said he last week. "Now I'm sure...