Word: successful
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Sallow-cheeked Agustin Lara is the most artful fashioner of the libido-loaded lyrics of Mexico's popular songs. He is also Mexico's most prolific popular composer. Since his first success with Mujer (1927), a song dedicated to all women, Lara has averaged 15 songs a year, most of them hits...
...sensational flop. The Times-Leader did not want it; neither did any New York syndicate. On & off for nine years, while he worked for three Wilkes-Barre newspapers, Fisher tried without success to sell Dumbelletski, later renamed Palooka (a common prize ring term for a third rater). At last McNaught Syndicate offered Fisher a job, not as a cartoonist, but as a salesman. Hustling Ham sold McEvoy & Striebel's Dixie Dugan strip to 41 newspapers and promised that on his next trip he would bring the "most terrific cartoon of all time." With that buildup, he sold Palooka...
...Raymond Clapper, John Herling) will alternate in bringing the news from Washington. WFDR hopes to supplement forums, educational and health programs with string ensembles, choral groups and dramatic shows supplied at times by I.L.G.W.U. talent (in 1937 an I.L.G.W.U.-produced revue, Pins and Needles, was an outstanding Broadway success). Boasts big, white-haired Frederick Umhey: "We plan to make WFDR the most articulate town-meeting hall, the outstanding music hall, the most attractive cultural center in New York...
...Almost without exception we are willing to call . . . the great democratic experiment . . . a success," Bahn said...
...Worst Degree." To Pittsburgh-born Billy, his flaming success at 34 is still a mystery. At St. Paul's Polytechnic Institute in Lawrenceville, Va., he was more interested in baseball and football than singing. Says he: "We thought guys in music were a little on the lavender side." He began to change his mind after winning an amateur-night singing contest in Washington's Howard Theater. By 1939, he had joined Earl ("Father") Hines's big band as a double-singing, and playing "trumpet in the worst degree." Says Billy: "I played fourth trumpet...