Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more impressive was the startling success that Finance Minister Antoine Pinay's public loan (TIME, June 23) was having among a people traditionally wary of government securities. In a single day last week Frenchmen parted with a record $18 million in hoarded gold to buy the new bonds, and by week's end the amount of gold converted into bonds totaled $52 million. "If this keeps up for a few weeks," grinned Pinay, "we may have to enlarge the vaults of the Bank of France...
...Woburn Park, just 40 miles from London, and in the gold-and-damask rooms of Woburn Abbey, things go on these days that would have made the first twelve Dukes of Bedford shudder. His present Grace has turned the place into a sort of Disneyland-with a degree of success that has made him both the target and the envy of all those engaged in what his duchess calls "the stately-homes racket...
Suggestion of Veils. "Success is a terrible attack on your sense of values," admits onetime Paratrooper Serling. "You get teed off because the heater of your swimming pool doesn't work. But you've got to keep remembering that half of living is wanting." Last week Serling had more to fret over than his Hollywood pool. He, his sense of values and his Playhouse go show called A Town Has Turned to Dust were in the eye of one of the wildest storms ever to batter a TV script...
...problem in getting color further off the ground," snapped NBC's President Robert Sarnoff. But Sarnoff was admittedly an interested witness, since RCA. NBC's parent company, makes nearly all the color sets sold, and has by far the largest investment in color's success. CBS, which has no such involvement, admits it is not boosting color at the moment, has in fact cut its color programs nearly in half in the last year. Explained CBS Vice President Richard S. Salant: "There's no public demand and no advertiser interest. Nobody gives a damn now. Suddenly...
...lured away from a drugstore in his home town of Provo, Utah, by the glowing picture of dime-store opportunity painted by a local Woolworth manager. He started as a window trimmer, became a store manager in Denver at 20, soon proved to have the proper mixture for success: administrative talent with the ability to get along with people. He bossed stores in five cities across the nation, became manager of the Boston district before being called to Manhattan in 1954. ¶ George L. Cobb, 47, president of Zeller's Ltd., a Canadian variety-store chain affiliated with...