Word: successful
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After four days and 16 shows of it, he collapsed with a stomach hemorrhage. One doctor said he would never get over his ulcers as long as he stayed in show business. Another gave him the advice he took: "All you need is a little success...
Last week, Tenor Rounseville finally got success, of the kind he wanted. With financial help from his home town of Attleboro, Mass., he had worked hard with a teacher, spent the summer of 1948 at Boris Goldovsky's opera school at Tanglewood. After a student production of the Fountain Scene from Pelléas and Mélisande there, he landed a chance to sing Pélleas in the New York City Opera's closing performance last year. Ace French Repertory Conductor Jean Morel liked Rounseville's big, wide-ranging tenor voice, taught him to sing...
International polo, the prewar sport of the breakneck rich, has nearly as many postwar problems as Lake Success. Taxes and war have all but killed the game in Britain, have certainly done it no good in the U.S. Only in Argentina, where more rated polo players (some 3,000) exist than in any other country in the world, is polo still clearly on the upgrade. For four years, Argentine polo's pride & joy has been a dashing outfit with a couple of Argentine Irishmen named Juan and Roberto Cavanagh riding...
...went to work in a California overall factory. When the overall business palled, he did a hitch as a houseboy and another in a Chinese restaurant. Finally the WPA came along and gave him a chance to paint fulltime, started him toward becoming a bang-up success with his brush (TIME, Sept. 3, 1945). Since his discharge from the Army, where he served as a private in the OSS in Washington, he has been living in Brooklyn and teaching at Columbia and Hunter College...
...secret of Cannon's success was the unsparing use of his apparently boundless nervous energy. At one time, besides his duties as head of a Methodist girls' school, he edited a newspaper, ran the Anti-Saloon League, speculated heavily on Wall Street and was one of the most active lobbyists for legal morality in Washington. His handling of political contributions became a national scandal, but he successfully defied congressional committees that sought to bring him to heel. Once he walked out of a public hearing after refusing to testify. Brought before both civil and ecclesiastical courts he always...