Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chandler, who foresees success for his new Orange County venture within a few years ("after all the bugs are worked out"), is wary of predicting that the Orange County formula will set any publishing trends, but it very well may. He is already thinking of adding additional satellites during the next five years in such growing Los Angeles sub urban areas as Ventura County and the San Gabriel Valley. And in the fu ture he says, satellite publishing seem to make sense in metropolitan markets, where papers are interested in furthering their economic base, away from the center city...
...every pot and a car in every garage, but also an Autogiro in every backyard. Chickens and cars have proliferated, but the Autogiro-a prop-driven aircraft with a freewheeling rotor in place of a wing-has virtually disappeared, a victim of its own inefficiencies and the remarkable success of the helicopter. The dream may yet come true. California's McCulloch Aircraft Corp. has successfully test-flown a contemporary Autogiro that is safer than a conventional plane, less expensive than a helicopter, and just about as easy to operate as an automobile...
This grim Beverly Hills hyperbole is the characteristic verbal coin of a man who is the quintessence of movie-industry cynicism and success. Bill Dozier, 60, started in Hollywood in 1935 as an agent for Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis, and has since been a top production executive at several movie studios and the executive producer of several TV programs, including You Are There, Studio One and Batman. Such is his reputation for plain talk that one-fifth of the registrants in his Monday-night course are not U.C.L.A. undergraduates but Hollywood directors, producers and pressagents...
...Secret Success. Widest-ranging among the Chicago collectors is Morton Neumann, 69, owner of a small mail-order cosmetics house, and none of the collectors mystifies his rivals more. Not that they fault his taste. The living room of Neumann's town house is festooned with Picassos, the dining room with Miros, and the former state dining room with a history of postwar U.S. art. The mystery is how Neumann goes about making his selections. Even among art dealers, he is known for the hard bargains he drives rather than for esthetic likes or dislikes. Despite Neumann...
...copies the first year, went on to become a hit movie, and made O'Connor a fortune He wrote several other books (including Edge of Sadness, All in the Family) and a play (I Was Dancing) about the Irish in America, but none could match his first success...