Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates' lounge at U.N. headquarters at Lake Success, where representatives of the world's sovereign nations gather over Martinis or orange juice, was a handy place for a casual meeting. There, one day last February, the U.S.'s lanky negotiator, Philip Jessup, fell into conversation with Russia's barrel-chested Yakov Malik. From that conversation, the U.S. learned last week, came the series of talks which brought the first break in the cold war in months: the Russians were prepared to abandon the blockade of Berlin. The end of the Berlin airlift, a historic employment...
Stoke had his own answers handy. He pestered the legislature until he had enough money to give his whole faculty a raise: he wanted L.S.U., already well-staffed in many departments, to be able to attract the best academic talent available. He campaigned (though without success) to get the system of political scholarships replaced by a competitive plan. He deprived his deans of their arbitrary power over faculty hiring & firing. He revived faculty meetings, and for the first time in years, gave professors and instructors a say in running the university...
...reason for the club's success was the inspired playing of a graceful, young (24) rookie second baseman named Jerry Coleman. An ex-Marine pilot who flew 57 strikes in the South Pacific, modest Jerry Coleman hit a modest .251 with Newark last year. During the winter to build himself up, he swung an overweighted bat in the cellar of his San Francisco home, faithfully executed 25 pushups morning & night. At week's end, Coleman had hit safely in seven consecutive games, had a fat .400 average. That was not as good as Rookie Johnny Groth...
...white poodle "Hyacinth" on a dirty rope. At fashion shows he would sometimes sprawl full-length on the floor with Hyacinth in his arms, clapping his hands and crying out "Ravishing!" as the models swished past his head. If he did that, the dresses were sure to be a success...
Chic Young has a simple explanation for the success of Blondie, which appears in 1,085 U.S. and Canadian papers and 178 foreign ones,* has been the foundation for 25 movies and a radio program, and has furnished names for countless dresses, dolls, sandwiches, shampoos, kazoos and mops. Cartoonist Young regards himself as a kind of chronicler of "the common man." Says he: "Blondie appeals to people because it is about simple things-eating, sleeping, the business of raising children, happenings around the house...