Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tactical Force. When General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery saw his early frontal attacks on the Mareth Line at Wadi Zig-zau fail, and saw his small flanking movement headed for El Hamma begin to succeed, he said: "Let's reinforce success." He pulled out much of his armor and more infantry and poured them south on a series of forced and camouflaged marches by night. The force made an extraordinary 200-mile dash across desert as trackless as the sky, building its own dust storms. Armor and the truck convoys made the whole desert stink like a garage, according...
...Groaning Past. Credit for the success of The Aldrich Family, which has been one of radio's top ten shows (present Crossley rating: 33.4) since December 1940, belong almost entirely to Play wright Goldsmith, a gentle, home-loving family man with thinning slicked hair, blue eyes and a puckish smile. He has the capacity for making his characters, especially Henry (Norman Tokar) and his pal Homer Brown (Jackie Kelk), seem warmly human, pleasantly credible...
Goldsmith found out about youth the hard way. Orphaned son of a pair of East Aurora, N.Y. schoolteachers, he tried vaudeville, playwrighting, stage and cinemacting without success. To earn a living while pursuing these arts he trimmed cigarstore windows, wrote insurance-company maxims (sample: "Sleep with your windows open and your mouth shut") and lectured high-school students on the benefits of drinking milk. Audiences used to groan when his subject was announced...
...Success secret of these food banks is primer-simple: better food at less cost...
...amaze me is that we got as far as we did. In all our dealings with the University we never had the slightest bit of trouble. When I first approached Mr. Merritt of the Music Department with the idea of the concert, I had my doubts as to my success. Not only was he interested, however, but even though it was not in the original plan, the Department voted to sponsor the affair...