Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Europeans remembered him as the great pre-Hitler conductor of the Berlin State Opera. Some Americans remembered his six-year success with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, but more remembered sensational newspaper headlines about...
...prove to the world that he was not crazy, Otto Klemperer spent his life earnings hiring a 70-piece orchestra for a performance in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall (TIME, May 15, 1941). The concert was a critical success-but no one would give him a steady job. Four West Coast orchestras let him make guest appearances, but that was all. Conductor Klemperer returned to his Los Angeles home, fretted away five years...
...been seeking success since her first short story was published in a Florida newspaper when she was an awkward nine-year-old. She went on to study law, worked as a newspaper reporter, wrote a sports column for the Tampa Tribune. In 1938 she moved to New York, nibbled at radio crumbs, wrote pulp fiction. She hit the big time last year when she sold her program idea to Mutual...
...designers as Eva Zeisel (Castleton China) and show-stopper Florence Forst. But to many Everyday Gallery visitors, one of the show's designers was an old table and dishpan friend: Russel Wright, who has thrown pottery makers-always a conservative lot-into a dither with the massive success of his American Modern dinnerware since...
...Morgan is a shrewd, even-tempered aviation expert whose simple success formula is: "The way to get things done is to get along with people." This time he was the man who had not been able to get along with Trippe. He had felt that Trippe was hurting Pan Am by: 1) going back on his promise to hire a top operating man; 2) plumping for his monopolistic Chosen Instrument...