Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With an average of 9.8 points a game, Donohue placed third among Crimson scorers this season. As playmaker next year, he will have a key role in determining the varsity's success...
...Louis, he gave the fans clowns, once used a midget as lead-off batter (he drew a base on balls), even let spectators manage the team for several games by flashing "yes" and "no" cards to questions of strategy. Yet the carnival atmosphere was no substitute for success. The Browns did not win, and Veeck tried to get the franchise transferred to Minneapolis or Baltimore, even considered Los Angeles. When American League club owners, nettled by his brashness, blocked every move, all he could do was quit. Says he: "I didn't leave baseball gracefully. I was evicted...
Whatever its shortcomings, Bird opened with the sweet smell of commercial success in its beak. The advance ticket sale reached $390,000, and the screen rights were sold to M-G-M for a sliding-scale sum that may reach $400,000. A long Broadway run was assured when the seven critics of the Manhattan dailies, seemingly under the sway of collective hypnosis, unanimously hailed the Williams drama. Said the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Enormously exciting." The Times's Brooks Atkinson called it "one of Mr. Williams' finest dramas." The most startling display of devotion came...
...instruments that judged the performance of the mated bomber and X-15, whether they flew well together at all altitudes without dangerous yaw or buffeting. The first test, as the three watching chase planes and the two closed-circuit TV cameras in the B-52 confirmed, was an unqualified success...
Mutual's rise is one of the success stories in U.S. insurance history. But like many an old-line company, Mutual sowed some financial wild oats on the way up. It was frequently accused of giving policyholders a false sense of security with its promises, then yanking the bed sheet from under them when they got sick, citing the fine print of the contract. The company has also been involved in policyholder suits. One rose out of a decision by the company's officers in 1926 to set up a parallel life insurance company, using Mutual...