Word: successful
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SALESMEN for Chicago's Hubbell Metals Inc. sometimes answer the telephone and hear a cannon go off. It is their president's way of saluting them for making a particularly good sale, urging them on to greater success. Other firms are giving the kids whistles and the wives signs intended to get Pop out to sell, sell, sell. The story of the wonderful (and woeful) things that are happening to salesmen as businessmen attack the recession is told in BUSINESS, Spur for the Front Lines...
...graduation he stayed in Milan, ran up such debts with his good friend, Pietro Mascagni (Cavalleria Rusticana) that the two of them got a map and inked out in red the sections of the city they could not walk through for fear of meeting creditors. Puccini scored a critical success with his first opera, a one-acter entitled Le Villi, but he did not win a large following until at 34 he collaborated with his two most successful librettists, Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, to produce Manon Lescaut. After that his popular success was secure...
...Attitude. When Beadle and Tatum reported their success in 1941, they had quite a collection of defective molds, each needing some extra nutrient or having some other gene-controlled chemical ailment. In a few years their imitators filled their own laboratories with molds as unnatural as the most monstrous fruit flies. The coral fluffs of normal Neurospora are rare in the test tubes and Petri dishes. In their place are blackish warts, lichenlike incrustations, or sick-looking globules. One horrible kind of mold grown in a moving liquid floats in bunches with limp limbs like soft, dead crabs...
...Highwayman), critic (Voltaire), philosopher ("God help us if we reach a stage in which our plumbing is perfect but in which the human soul atrophies"), novelist (The Devil Takes a Holiday), onetime (1914-23) professor of English literature at Princeton; on the Isle of Wight. The early commercial success of his verse was a sensitive point with Noyes, who abhorred the hack reputation, denied that he "had made poetry pay." Born a generation after his time, Traditionalist Noyes was sharply articulate about "that curious modern tolerance for things which ought not to be tolerated." Novelist Hugh Walpole was once kicked...
...much, says Chayefsky, for Success. If he means to imply (and evidently he does) that Success is all there is to the American Way of Life, then he had better send telegrams to several million moviegoers, because otherwise they are not going to get the message. But there are compensations. In scene after scene, thanks perhaps principally to Director John Cromwell, the audience looks into the screen as through a window into life. And Cromwell deserves much credit for the acting. As the mother, Betty Lou Holland is painfully good. And Actress Stanley triumphs over heavy odds...