Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although it remains a moot point whether Potter owes his success to the ruthlessness of Radcliffe students or to the perspicacity of the Boston Globe, he still is one of the few College Freshmen who has a dinner date this evening...
Erich von Stroheim, once Hollywood's bullet-headed villain No. 1, was having great success in Paris, and not liking it at all. His ten-year-old La Grande Illusion, reissued, was the best-attended movie in town-and the most debated, because it showed Germans in a favorable light. From the Riviera, Von Stroheim cried out clearly, "Most inopportune," then rapidly became less & less clear. "I was a German cavalry officer," said he. "I loved horses, women, champagne and sport. French officers and officers of all other countries loved the same things. It is the bosses who wage...
Deputy to Director Vannevar Bush of the OSRD and special consultant to Major General Leslie Groves, Conant was the No. 1 intermediary between scientists, industrialists and military, an indispensable link in building the Bomb. His success in this role does not make Conant altogether happy. He considers control of the Bomb the world's biggest job, flew to Moscow last December, as an adviser to Secretary Byrnes, to discuss with Molotov and the Russians plans for atomic-energy control. While he was there, he added Moscow to the alumni kerosene circuit...
...Each His Own (published by Paramount Music Corp.) is the first success of Ray Evans and Jay Livingston. In return for Hollywood peanuts ($250 a week), these two 31-year-old composers knock out ballads celebrating titles of non-musical movies (Kitty, Dear Ruth...
Second Generation. Most of George Washington Hill's success was due to the whopping sums he spent to trumpet his products ($20,000,000 in one year alone). He was socially retiring, lived in quiet retreat on his Hudson Valley estate in Irvington, N.Y., where he kept Japanese deer, black & white swans and two dachshunds (Mr. Lucky and Mrs. Strike). But in his ads he was loud. He insisted on catchy slogans, exaggeration and repetition, tapped the untouched women's cigaret market with "Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet...