Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...details of two U.S. victories—the Battle of the Coral Sea, May 4 to 8, and the Battle of Midway, June 3 to 7 threw much light on the current balance of gain & loss in the Pacific. Tales of U.S. skill, heroism and success also provided the first clear look at naval warfare, 1942 style...
...worst cave-in, The Lady Comes Across (a $200,000 musicalamity). Only producers to have had more than one hit were the Shuberts, but Gilbert Miller headed the mourners' bench with three flops. Movie money in general was tight, even though The Moon Is Down (because of its success as a book) went to 20th Century-Fox for a record $300,000, Let's Face It! to Paramount...
...Fonda, however, because its impoverished head (Don Ameche) has selected him as the nationwide winner of a contest for the man least likely to succeed. The prize is $500 cash and a course at the Institute. Fonda wants the cash only; Ameche has to make his unwilling pupil a success...
Adapted from Julian Thompson's The Warrior's Husband, in which Katharine Hepburn made her first Broadway success a decade ago, By Jupiter makes smirking and off-color copy-which soon palls and sometimes offends-of Playwright Thompson's inverted world of ancient Amazons where the women are bold and rakish warriors and their menfolk coy and high-voiced homebodies. It winds up with a real War-Between-the-Sexes in which the invading Greeks make proper women of the Amazons by stealing the magic girdle that is the source of their strength...
...this first novel, with great seriousness and intensity, Miss Schmitt makes a try at a genuine U.S. tragedy. Too few U.S. writers try that, and almost none succeed. Miss Schmitt deserves a medal for valor, not for success...