Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purchased the paperback rights for some $832,000, half of which will go to Fast. And Universal Studios has acquired production rights. The studio will probably produce a mini-series out of the books, and the resulting royalties could mean very big money for Fast, who sees his financial success largely as a freak of chance...
From there, the story has been one of success. Herold has registered 50 saves in the four games since Columbia, allowing but four goals in that span. Best of all, he seems to have developed enough confidence to overcome his only earlier weakness--hanging back in one-on-one situations...
...With a success greater than any Backhouse could claim in the Imperial court, Trevor-Roper penetrates the mystery of the self-styled Hermit of Peking. But what is so fascinating about this book, what makes it so immensely readable, is not merely the catalogue of Backhouse's many frauds, of which the fabrication of Ching-Shan's diary is not even the greatest, but Trevor-Ropor's personal involvement in the story...
Another Harvard pair quickly followed. Brian Finn, the afternoon's real success story, grabbed the fifth slot, having run the best race of his Harvard career. He was shadowed by captain Stein Rafto who finished seventh. Another Brown finisher, Steve Moore, came in eighth, interrupting the Harvard progression. But not for long, however: Dave Loftus and Guy McCroskey wrapped up the ninth and tenth slots respectively for the Crimson...
...appealing life. You have to be able to live on your inner resources." He, his German-born wife Ingrid and their two daughters do just that in a dilapidated Edwardian house in County Offaly that they bought three years ago and have been refurbishing ever since. MacDonald's success came suddenly in 1974, when runaway sales of his novel World from Rough Stones sent the family scurrying from British taxes. At first he felt guilty about paying no taxes. But the $25,000 he spends annually in wages to local workers has eased his doubts. "It was the exemption...