Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strikes & Pauses. Patton has had much success in fooling Germans. Few U.S. generals know the German military mind as well. Patton has studied Germans diligently from Africa northward, from Normandy eastward. When Patton moves swiftly, as in the Rhine crossing, it is because he knows the Germans expect him to pause. When he pauses, it is most likely because he knows the Germans are set for him to strike...
What happened to George Paxton has become the accepted formula for success as a name-band leader. First, there must be an "angel" who can be persuaded that the leader will click. Then there are hard months of rehearsing and harder months of trying out around the country. The immediate goal is a Manhattan booking with a big radio network hookup...
...Salvation Army, he learned early to blow a variety of horns in soul-saving bands. He spent ten years as a name-band arranger. During the past year, he has worked some 17 hours a day rehearsing, scurrying after contracts, exploring songs. He is not wide-eyed about success: "It's harder to stay there than to get there...
Died. Vincent ("Ben") Bendix, 62, massive, restless, auto-aero parts manufacturer, inventor of the first practical self-starter (1912), founder of Bendix Aviation Corp., president of Bendix Helicopter, Inc. (planning postwar mass production of four-passenger helicopter sedans); of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. Despite the vast success of his companies, personal reverses (real-estate projects, a whopping divorce settlement) sent him into bankruptcy...
...Carousel," the Theater Guild's latest attempt to copy former success "Oklahoma," specializes in top notch Agnes DeMille dance routines, overflows with passable Richard Rodgers music, and totters on the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and the plot from Ferenc Molnar's "Liliom...