Word: successful
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...friends know him) is one of England's foremost versifiers (Who's Who at the Zoo, The Adventures of Mr. Thake, The Dancing Cabman) and a serious scholar specializing in the French Revolution ( The Bastille Falls). He has been the "Beachcomber" 20 years, but his success in whimsey is not unique...
...will be chiefly responsible for the success or failure of these agenda is the new bureau's head, Raymond Zoller Henle, longtime Washington correspondent and a Blue Network commentator. His one assistant so far is Malvina Stephenson, Washington reporter for the Kansas City Star and Cincinnati Times-Star. Henle must make records and ship them to West Virginia for broadcasting until the network feels it can afford a direct wire. That luxury awaits the verdict of the state's 325,000 radio families...
Slosson attributes his success to: 1) abstention from liquor and tobacco; 2) training; 3) a natural gift for the game. A grandnephew of James Fenimore Cooper, he played billiards with some of the literary figures of his youth. Last week he recalled them the way a seaman recalls far ports of the earth. Henry Ward Beecher he remembered as a "just ordinary" player. Robert G. Ingersoll and Charles A. Dana were fair amateurs. Mark Twain was "a good fair amateur." Slosson also gave billiard lessons to famed soprano Adelina Patti...
Said Air Surgeon Major General David N. W. Grant: "Air evacuation . . . has contributed considerably to the tactical success of every major land offensive involving American forces. It has reduced the need for hospitalization in forward areas. . . . The record places air evacuation in a group with the sulfa drugs and blood plasma as one of the three greatest lifesaving measures of modern military medicine...
Many U.S. editors have tried to explain the Bulletin's long, steadily strengthened grip on Philadelphia's readers. Most have given up with a too-easy revision of its slogan to: "Only in Philadelphia Would Nearly Everybody Read the Bulletin." The paper fits no familiar pattern for success. Unlike the crusading St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it almost never upsets an applecart, seldom even nudges one. It does not go in heavily for foreign correspondence. It is never spectacular...