Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fury's success is due less to the horse sense it propounds than the exciting horseflesh it displays. No ordinary nag, Fury (real name: Beauty) is one of the best-trained, best-paid horses in Hollywood, where his competition is keen. He lives quietly on a posh ranch in Van Nuys, Calif., works only four months a year and has brought Owner Ralph McCutcheon about $500,000 in eight years. His Fury fee: $1,500 a show. A saddlebred, eleven-year-old stallion standing 15 lands high, Fury has borne some of Hollywood's most famous bodies...
...says, sneaky-like: "I plan to assemble a human being." His friend is horrified. "But, Professor Frankenstein, you can't-" Oh yes, he can, and what's more, he plans to make a teen-age monster. After all, I Was a Teenage Werewolf was a howling success at the box office last year. Explains the mad scientist: "Only in youth is there hope...
Bingo's overnight success fits right in with TV's new rage for parlor games, which are cheap to produce and pull in good ratings. This week NBC will replace its Arlene Francis Show with a new game called Dough-Re-Mi. CBS is planning to put on Win-Go instead of The Eve Arden Show, will switch from Dick and the Duchess to Lucky Dollar, is also grooming three other games...
...winning success, the Japanese also created a new household market for U.S. makers, whose cheaper ware previously went mainly to restaurants and institutions. U.S. silverware makers themselves soon turned to stainless steel. They, too, were quite successful. All told, U.S. makers boosted their sales from 10.8 million dozen pieces in 1953 to 14.4 million in 1956, and new jobs were created. But because the sales of U.S. makers did not rise as fast as imports, which in 1956 captured about one-third of the total U.S. market, the U.S. companies began complaining about imports...
...Smashing Success. In Pittsfield, Mass., after her partner, flashing an intricate step, sailed his foot up and into her face, Judy Mack kept on dancing in a teen-age dance contest, won third prize and a fractured nose...