Word: successful
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...like Lise to be worthy of much support. Although not a Jew himself, Hahn was no friend of the regime. Throughout World War II, he was left undisturbed at his work, exploring radioactive isotopes. In the U.S., where scientists assumed that the Germans were following up his atom-splitting success, the race was on to achieve fission on a more Promethean scale. In 1945, after Germany's defeat, the results were displayed at Hiroshima...
Back home in Port Arthur, Texas, Janis' mother and father (a cannery executive) are mildly astonished at her success, but also relieved. For a long time, she admits, they thought she was "a goner." By her own description, Janis in her Port Arthur days was a weirdo among fools. She painted, read poetry, and listened to Odetta and Leadbelly records. "Everybody else was going to drive-ins and drinking Cokes and talking about going across the tracks to go nigger knocking." At 18, she escaped to Los Angeles with her parents' dubious blessing and became a beatnik...
...producing wells for a total of 7,132, and built more than 500 new service stations while modernizing others. Now the Alaskan find is quite a layer of frosting on the cake. "Everybody else," says Anderson, "had pretty well written the Arctic Slope off because of cost, indifferent success, and the absolute need for a major discovery in order to have commercial significance." Atlantic Richfield thought about writing off the area too. On their 90,000 acres of leased land, the first well drilled, called Susie No, 1, turned out to be so expensive a lady that the bill...
Stein's success as a businessman is all the more remarkable for the fact that his original calling was ophthalmology. A graduate of both the University of Chicago and Rush Medical College, Stein helped finance his education first by organizing a band in which he played "schmaltz" violin and saxophone, later by arranging dance-hall bookings for other bands. In 1924, Dr. Stein founded the Music Corporation of America as a band-booking agency, found the sideline so profitable that he decided to abandon medicine. Over the years he moved into management of talent in radio and films, succeeded...
...announced repeatedly that record numbers of people had flocked to the Newport Folk Festival this year, and each time the anouncement was made the crowds cheered themselves with an enthusiasm reserved only for artists of the most reknown. The success of the box office, however, did not insure the success of the festival, and the vast numbers in attendance were just so many witnesses to the end of an era and the demise of an institution...