Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success Russia's Andrei Gromyko angrily insisted that Russia, too, be allowed to send truce officers. That was the last thing U.N. wanted. But how could...
...applause for Maria Helena capped a success story. Four years ago, a shapely, green-eyed girl with chestnut hair, she sold sportswear in a Buenos Aires department store for $32 a month. She liked to sing, finally decided to make a career of it. One day she slipped backstage at a Colón rehearsal, asked María Barrientos, oldtime operatic star and famed teacher, to give her lessons. Coloratura Barrientos took a shine to her, made her a prot...
Smart old Grassi Diaz knew what he was doing. After María Helena's debut (once again she sang with Gigli), Buenos Aires newspapers broke out in a rash of praise. Said La Prensa: "A great success . . . She has a pure, generous, fresh and moving voice . . . [She] has shown rare qualities which promise a brilliant career...
...Helena knows that early success does not always make a career. She plans to keep on studying, hopes some day to sing at La Scala or the Met. Said she last week: "I might go a long way if I don't hurry...
...best this-hurts-me-worse tone, he used to ask erring pupils, "Why didn't you give me a break so I could give you a break?"), Powers is an old Latin School student himself, has been on the faculty since 1906. The Powers prescription for scholastic success: hard work on a classical curriculum with a minimum of electives and no frilly courses...