Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andrews dramatics group, The Puddocks was a rousing success, and in the printed version Young got out, it won an accolade from T.S. Eliot: "A most delightful piece of work. I enjoyed it immensely." A bit of the original Greek retained in Young's Puddocks as well as Murray's Frogs-the croak of the frog chorus that mocks Dionysus as Charon ferries him across the Styx...
...planned to sell only 3,000,000 shares. But demand proved so great that Lehman increased the offering to 16 million. The response amazed all Wall Street, which had no idea there was so much money available from small investors, particularly during a recession. Sparked by Lehman's success, Lazard Freres & Co. announced that it will start a mutual fund, the fifth to be launched since January...
ECONOMY FLIGHTS are whopping success on North Atlantic, comprise 45% of Pan Am's traffic, 50% of T.W.A.'s, 73% of Swissair's. One result: tourist class, which costs $315 one way to London v. $252 for economy, may be eliminated...
...high blood pressure and heart disease that often accompany the businessman's strenuous pace, Dr. James N. Lynch, secretary of the Chicago Dental Society, last week added "executive mouth." Plenty of dental defects, said Dr. Lynch, are caused by "the same factors that contribute to what we call success in life." Hard-driving businessmen seeking release from stress clench their teeth, jut their jaws, grind their molars-both on the job and in their sleep. In cases of irregular bite, this leads to pyorrhea, which causes the bone around the tooth to dissolve. Result: the teeth loosen...
...gives up a fine job to be near Margaret. But when it comes to planning the future, they would like a really full life; they want each other and their married mates as well. Author Evan Hunter suggests that life in suburbia is to blame, mutters vaguely that even success and a happy family are not enough for a man whose inner urges push beyond the humdrum life at the other...