Word: successful
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Another early hero of Surrealism, Salvador Dali, had been excommunicated for a rankling crime: success. Dali's slick-as-grease craftsmanship and even slicker pressagenting had won him a reputation as a sort of a screwball Benvenuto Cellini in modern dress. Last week a new edition of the real Cellini's famed Autobiography appeared (Doubleday Limited Editions; $10) and it was illustrated by Dali...
Stone Cold Dead is the biggest Calypso hit since Rum & Coca-Cola (TIME, Jan. 29, 1945). It is also the first big success of 45-year-old Wilmoth Houdini, a Brooklyn-born Trinidad Negro who lives in Manhattan's Harlem half the year, the other half in Trinidad. Houdini, who has recorded 800 Calypso songs, expects to make $40,000 from...
Campbell named Scott B. Elledge, instructor in English, as "responsible more than anyone else for the success of the campaign" because of his efforts in organizing the Committee and in publishing its work, and he expressed thanks to Joel Dorius and Beverly J. Laymen, both of the Faculty, for publishing the folder and contacting Faculty members, and Clemens Heller 3G for serving the Committee in an advisory capacity...
...Secretary-General of the United Nations. But last April 11, he received a telegram which might well have set his ganglia to twanging. In it one James J. O'Neill requested the privilege of moving U.N. from Hunter College in The Bronx to its new home at Lake Success, Long Island. His proposed fee: one dollar...
...Since in trying to hit one of six numbers, the probability of success on the basis of chance is one-sixth, the expected number of hits...