Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alexei has had considerable success in encouraging pan-Slav propaganda and promoting other Soviet aims in the Iron Curtain countries. But elsewhere Alexei is not having much luck. Most Orthodox clergy are nonpolitical, like Tokyo's new Bishop Benjamin, of whom TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans cabled last week: "He is a simple, soft-spoken man who constantly rambled into a report of his sewing school, showing little interest in the ado over his bishopric...
...Philippines, where he was a missionary of the Congregational Christian Churches; Dr. Laubach performed what could well be described as a miracle in giving the Moros an alphabet and teaching them to read & write. There, the each-one-teach-one technique was worked out and used with astounding success...
...taken office, his four-day-old son had died. "This is a very good omen," said the Burmans. "If somebody in Aung San's family had to leave us, it is better that his little one should go. It bodes long life for our noble leader, and success in his efforts to build a free Burma...
Erskine Caldwell, ribald explorer into the itchy side of the South, was enjoying a crashing success in Denver with his 14-year-old God's Little Acre. The pocket edition (25?) was fetching $5 on the black market, and bookstores were sold out of the regular edition. Responsible for the boom: the head of the police Morals Bureau, who suppressed the 25? Acre because "it was too easy for kids to get it." Did he find the book obscene? "No comment," said...
...younger writers who questioned those values. Winesburg, Ohio, had been published in 1919; Main Street had been published in 1920, so had This Side of Paradise. The jazz age-which was also a self-critical and troubled age-had begun. But Booth Tarkington was 51. After his young success with costume romance (Monsieur Beaucaire) and carefree playwriting abroad with Harry Leon Wilson (The Man from Home), he had gone back to Indiana in 1911, there to come to his prime, and make his fortune, in one of the freshest and most crassly confident decades in U.S. history...