Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was where Earl Warren fitted into Republican strategy for 1948. He brought some obvious political advantages to any party ticket: his straightforward, reassuring personality, his home in a key state, his handsome family, his undeniable success at the polls. In a campaign designed to reassure the voters, he was the living, beaming embodiment of reassurance...
Some 600 "reconverted" men of 16 different nationalities have formed a McIndoe alumni group called "The Guinea Pig Club." The lighthearted lyrics of the club's anthem are a tribute to Sir Archibald's success in salvaging minds as well as faces...
With no more success, the Commies tried to attack the Labor government's plan for freezing wages (nonCommunist workers don't like it either, but they would brook no Red assault...
...London, where a busy summer had already spawned half a dozen hits, the new season began briskly with what looked like another success by prolific Terence Rattigan (The Winslow Boy, O Mistress Mine). Called Playbill, it was a program of two one-acters: The Browning Version, a study of an embittered schoolmaster, and A Harlequinade, which pokes fun at highbrow theater. Rattigan, whose annual royalties pile up to about $100,000, also has a new drama about Alexander the Great scheduled for a winter opening, and is working on a comedy...
...young Yale professor had an immediate success with a first novel, The Asiatics. Frederic Prokosch had written a story so flamboyantly adventurous and so rich in pure writing talent that to carp at its philosophical maunderings seemed petty. Wrote Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann: "I count it among the most brilliant and original achievements of the young literary generation." The trouble is that Prokosch has gone on writing variants of the same book for 13 years. His latest is Storm and Echo, like The Asiatics, a blend of far places, strange and terrible events, and a murky, anguished, generally unsuccessful search...