Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anonymity Is Out. The two chief reasons for the Journal's huge success are both named Gould. They appear on the masthead in 12-point type as "Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar Gould, Editors." They are far better known to the public than most of the editing confraternity, because of such journalistic didos as cozy "interviews" with notables like Eleanor Roosevelt and Harold Stassen, which were actually written by Gretta Palmer and J. C. Furnas, respectively...
...deserted the basketball court to try and fill the shoes of the departed Bill Swiacki this season. Klemovich was the outstanding lineman in the Rutgers fray by virtue of his savage tackling and three conversions. He is an expert at flat on-side kickoffs, while Russell has had phenomenal success in punting out-of-bounds in the coffin corners...
Artistic and financial success welcomed the four owner-producers of the Cambridge Summer Playhouse to their newly acquired theater this summer. Over 2500 playgoers jammed Brattle Hall every week to witness professional productions by Shaw, Shakespeare, Maugham, O'Casey, and other play-wrights...
Henry Lamar and some 15 of his almost fearless Freshmen took over from where the eleven ersatz Lions left off. Against the yearlings, Valpey polished up the intricacies of his single wing offense with the first four teams and met with considerable success. Only fumbles caused by almost total darkness slowed the Varsity attack...
...ticketseller at London's Sadler's Wells Theater, the words themselves made music: "Sorry, sir, no seats-we're a success." For a fortnight, Londoners had been flocking to hear the new opera of lanky Benjamin Britten (TIME, Feb. 16)-his fourth in four years...