Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ghoul prowled around a cemetery not far from Paris. Into family chapels went he, robbery of the dead intent upon"). When Hadden, only 31, died of a streptococcus infection in 1929, the magazine published a Milestones item about him which ended in a typical TIME sentence: "To Briton Hadden success came steadily, satisfaction never...
...folk underground. Until recently, at least. Now he is getting numerous engagements in the club circuit; during the past few months he has performed at Manhattan's Bitter End, Los Angeles' Troubadour, and San Francisco's Fillmore auditorium. Is he about to wander into popular success in the U.S. too? Lightfoot shrugs. "The public gets around to you," he says. "You don't get around to them...
...Woroner's joy at the success of his gimmick is equally unrestrained. Next September he will broadcast a play-off tournament between the "16 greatest college football teams of all time." In 1970, in conjunction with National Football League Films, he plans to stage Friday-night games between pro football teams. Also in the works is a project to animate still pictures of boxers so that the computerized fights can be moved to television. "And we could do more than sports," says Woroner. "Much more! Wars! Hitler's Germany against the Roman Empire! Napoleon versus Alexander the Great...
...Braun, the biochemist in The Old System, wonders about the old standards of Jewish values that have led his relatives to both business success and family hostility. He recalls a resentful dying cousin who refused to see a rich brother unless he paid a $20,000 entrance fee to her hospital room. She believed that he had cheated her many years before. The preposterousness of the situation dissolves when brother and sister are reconciled in a scene that conveys forcefully the author's tragicomic sense of life. Even Dr. Braun, the scientist, is "bitterly moved" by the "crude circus...
...served under Caldwell and has been at the helm for 12 years now. Under these two men the single wing has always been employed, so that it is not only an effective novelty, but it is a tradition not likely to be changed soon, especially with Princeton's continued success...