Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starting again, I would change my major from political science to history. In history you get facts. In the social sciences you get other people's opinions." His classmate, William Stout, 22, thought that teachers were "trying to impose morality on a situation that demands immorality for success...
...reason for his Tribune's success is that McCormick has simply made it indispensable. No paper in all Chicagoland can match its overwhelming coverage of the news. When a big story breaks, the Trib can throw a score of men on it to outreport and outwrite the opposition. In sports, in comics, women's pages, signed columns and display ads it offers all things to all people. It is the housewife's guide, the politician's breakfast food, a bible to hundreds of small-town editorial writers. A classless paper, it is read on the commuter...
Chesser Campbell, 49, the Tribune's $100,000-a-year advertising manager, is a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan, who started with McCormick's old, expatriate Paris Tribune in 1921. One measure of his success: last year the Trib led the world in advertising lineage...
...well pleased to take the throne in R. H. Macy & Co.'s toy department. His employer (Maureen O'Hara) regards him as a harmless old lunatic and her grimly progressive little girl (Natalie Wood) is sure he is an outright fraud. Kris stakes his earthly failure or success on winning them over to the faith. Meanwhile he raises hob with the Christmas-rush spirit by directing customers to rival stores, whenever Macy's merchandise is not exactly what they want...
Submission with Good Grace. Mrs. Atkinson found the Russians firmly behind their rulers: "I never met a Russian who really doubted the wisdom of the men at the head of their Government nor their purity of motive nor their ultimate success. I never met an American with any knowledge of Russian politics who thought that the headmen of the Russian Government were crooked." Of course, the Russians she met did not include the many (close to 10 to 15 million, her correspondent-husband estimates) in Government prisons and conscript labor camps...