Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis (TIME, June...
Although Shah agreed that Communism is not a serious threat, he said it did have a fair amount of influence and might cause trouble in the future. Particularly if more and from the free world does not reach Pakistan. Religion, the major reason for the Communists' lack of success, does not fill empty stomachs, he said, and Communism is waiting to feed. But, Shah added, "Pakistan is openly on the side of the free world...
Piano Preferred. Nobody is more surprised by her spectacular success in Europe than 42-year-old Rosalyn Tureck herself. Born in Chicago of Turkish-Ukrainian parents, she was giving all-Bach recitals by the time she was 15. At 16, as an applicant for a scholarship at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, she staggered the judges by offering to ripple off 16 Bach preludes and fugues. In her second year at Juilliard she learned the Goldberg Variations in five weeks, was later told by the president that it was impossible to play the Variations (unmodified) on a piano...
...Harpsichordists Wanda Landowska and Ralph Kirkpatrick, were left relatively cool. After a poorly attended concert in Manhattan's Town Hall, the New York Times critic demanded: "Must this great artist go to Europe to be recognized by her own country?" In 1953 she did just that, with such success that she returned in 1954 for four months of solid engagements. Her concerts at London's Albert Hall have sold out months in advance. Twice she has packed the huge Festival Hall, and has had capacity audiences at Wigmore Hall spilling onto the stage...
...produce more cotton, which in turn will mean a higher surplus and one that will be even more expensive to dispose of abroad. Each additional penny of price supports will cost $25 million more in cotton export subsidies. Said Morse: "With the formulas in the present law, our success in moving surplus No. 1 will set the stage for surplus...