Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...updated his files by sending what appeared to be business messages to 229 West 43rd St.-the Times's street address-using a prearranged code ("Regret inform you 24 boilers out of order") to relay casualty totals. When last Monday's school strike in Caracas proved a success, Newsman Szulc succeeded in getting a telephone connection to New York, dictated his entire story in Polish to his businessman-friend. The morning after Pérez Jiménez' ouster, early-rising Tad Szulc had the first press interview with Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal...
...Chicago Law School "because I didn't like it," Bruce Sagan is the youngest of three sons of a wealthy Manhattan garment manufacturer-and thus, in the eyes of his critics, has gone from riches to a rag. Even with help from his family, Sagan's success has been powered by a broad streak of pugnacity and a keen nose for news. Says his old City News boss, Managing Editor Isaac Gershman: "He moves three times faster than anyone else...
...century, side-window lighting was the principal solution, with now and then a smoking torch to light a royal procession through a gallery. The Louvre's Grande Galerie, begun by Napoleon, introduced the skylight roof on a grand scale, and with it natural overhead lighting-but without bright success. In 1857 London's Victoria and Albert Museum experimented with fishtail gas jets, lighted by a traveling pilot light that was propelled along a track by a clockwork motor; in 1877 the Victoria and Albert made the first experiment with indirect lighting when military searchlights were reflected from...
...intriguing question: Did they die by accident or by divine plan? Its prose was clean and classical, its characters adroitly limned and it was constructed with the delicacy of a motet. But it was essentially a tour de force, and Wilder's publishers were surprised at its runaway success. Bridge won the Pulitzer Prize, sold more than 2.000,000 copies, was translated into some two dozen languages and two bad motion pictures. As produced for CBS by David (Prince and the Pauper) Susskind, the Bridge was cliffs-above-average TV, but it still creaked of banality, of too many...
...most heavily mortgaged U.S. roads and in terms of its heavy and unprofitable passenger traffic one of the least desirable. But Young talked as if his mere presence would banish trouble and nurture prosperity. For a while, it seemed as if Young would repeat the success he had with the coal-hauling C. & 0. The Central went on a $2 annual dividend basis; costs were cut and income boosted. Central's stock shot up from 23 to 49½; Young confidently predicted that it would go to 100, and urged his friends to get in while the getting...