Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irish Catholic," said the New Republic. "Obviously his relations with the extreme right in French politics were warm." Dwight Eisenhower felt differently. He awarded Murphy the Distinguished Service Medal, later wrote of him: "Affable, friendly, exceedingly shrewd . . . Unquestionably his missionary work had much to do with eventual success...
...Just Outgrew Her." Powell's secret of success lies in his gaudy person and personality, which seem to mesmerize Harlem's 75.000 eligible voters. Tall and trim (6 ft. 2 in., 193 Ibs.), the descendant of slaves (at ten. he says, he traced with horror the brand on his grandfather's back), he has talked his way to wealth and influence, become the dashing symbol of all that his constituents would like to be. An ordained minister, he succeeded his father in the pulpit of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church (9,943 congregants). Promptly turning...
Gypsy Rhythm. The bestselling version of the song (Decca's) was recorded by Composer Domenico Modugno himself. Last week, as if to make the success official, the swarthy, mop-headed Sicilian followed his voice to the U.S. And as soon as he alighted at New York's Idlewild Airport, exuberantly sliding down the banister of the landing steps, Domenico treated his welcoming committee to a rendering...
...Hartman; Paramount) is Shirley Booth, and no one can match her when she is on the middle-aged make. Waving her umbrella like a fairy godmother with a poltergeistic wand, she stumbles, rumbles and cannily bumbles her way through the title role of Thornton Wilder's 1956 stage success in a manner that moviegoers with a taste for old-fashioned American farce will have no trouble savoring...
...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...