Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party critics. He told what a Laborite described as a "sob story": had he been able to deal solely with British Jewry, a solution could have been found long ago, but the dangerous influence of American Jewry had been at work and robbed him of any chance of success. Buck-toothed Konni Zilliacus, pro-Soviet Laborite, tossed a charge of "playing power politics," accused Bevin of letting the strategic Iraq-Palestine pipeline † stand in the way of any solution. Reported one M.P.: "Ernie in his most naive way threw up his hands and said, 'We never thought...
Into the Nerves. Might a brain injection of this solution revive a dying patient with low blood pressure, weak pulse and feeble breathing? During World War II, Dr. Stern gave brain injections to shock victims given up for dead. The treatment was a dramatic success: of the first 383 "hopeless" cases, 302 recovered. By war's end, the treatment was standard in many Soviet hospitals...
...only six months on the air, "Heart Throb" Barker's Merry-Go-Round had built an audience of 20 million (fully as large as that of Tommy Handley, long Britain's No. 1 radio funnyman). There were two good reasons for Heart Throb's success: 1) he had won a wide following among British servicemen as a wartime overseas entertainer; 2) Britons love their own variety of corn, and Barker gives it to them thickly buttered with Briticisms. Last week's program, like all the others, reported the high & low life of a spavined spa called...
Little for Charity. By such deals Filene's basement has managed to operate profitably for 38 years, and has become something of a Boston institution. Its success is based on its automatic price-cutting policy. Any article not sold within twelve days is marked down 25%; at the end of 18 days, it is cut another 25%; after 24 days, another 25%. If the article is not sold in 30 days, Filene's gives it away-to a charitable organization. But charity gets little: the bargain basement sells 90% of its merchandise the first day. Only one-tenth...
...Warsaw, and the international student rest center at Salzburg. Their plight is desperate; their need is great. The activity of the Student Committee in this far-sighted humanitarian enterprise is a cause for pride on the part of all those in this institution. The first drive was a great success. Those who are in a position to give must see that this effort does not fail. James B. Conant