Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Informer. In Leeds, England, Sidney Parsons broke into a clothing factory, frantically tried to get out, without success, until he finally telephoned police for help...
...secrets for financial success was not to tell his wife how much he was making. "Tell your wife how much money you make and that's how much you spend." By heeding his own warning, Attorney Medina had accumulated a comfortable fortune, built a fine summer home at Westhampton, N.Y., maintained a comfortable town apartment, sent his two sons, Harold Jr. and Standish, to Princeton and Columbia Law School, bought a 46-ft. cruiser and a string of sailboats, became an enthusiastic Princeton alumnus (class of '09) and had just about everything he wanted out of life...
Wrote the big leader to the little boss: "The experience of the last war has shown that the German and Soviet peoples made the largest sacrifice in that war, that both these peoples have the largest potentialities in Europe to complete great actions of world significance ... I wish you success on this new and glorious road. Long live and prosper the unified, independent, democratic, peace-loving Germany...
...Lake Success, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinslcy found something that Russians and Americans have in common. Switching briefly from his own language to English to make a quotation, he told a U.N. committee: "I trust you will excuse my barbarous English, but it is well known that English pronunciation often cannot be mastered, not only by Russians, but also by the Americans...
...reason for his success is the quality of his recording artists. To play The Wonderful Violin he got the NBC Symphony Orchestra's Concertmaster Mischa Mischakoff. Another reason: the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony and the Dallas Symphony, among others, have found Y.P.R.-commissioned scores (e.g., Alex North's The Waltzing Elephant, Walter Hendl's Little Brass Band, Douglas Moore's The Emperor's New Clothes) good enough for their concert programs...