Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cloherty points without pretension to the reasons behind his precocious success as an investigative reporter: "Hard work, and knowing how to handle sources, yes, but mostly luck, being in the right place at the right time, just like it's always been," he says...
...fourth line consisted mainly of Kevin Burke, Phelps Swift and Paul Haley but Wiz Wyatt and Dave Gauthier also had a few turns on the ice. There is no question in anybody's mind that the fourth line was one of the key factors to the team's success...
Evans, a Manhattan dentist's son, relishes the growing legends that surround his success. With his darkly handsome face and deep mellifluous voice-a blend of West Side New York with Bill Buckley vowel attenuation-drama is his element. The wonder is that his own acting career failed. In fitting Old Hollywood style, he was "discovered" by Norma Shearer by the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Shearer decided that Evans was the man to play her late husband, MGM Producer Irving Thalberg, in the film Man of a Thousand Faces. Evans has since been compared to Thai-berg...
...Tregaskis leaned indulgently on legends of the sort that defy time and locale. The Polynesians had neither calendar nor alphabet before English-speaking traders started settling in the islands in the 1780s. Knowledge of Kamehameha's early career is misty, accounts of his later life were colored by success: by that time he had become a powerful King, and most of his enemies were dead...
DiCara has always put his memory to good political use. A frequent candidate since his class president days at Boston Latin School, he has had remarkable success in almost every election he has entered. "People used to laugh at Larry when he would run for high school and college offices, but when it came to election day his was the only name they recognized," a longtime DiCara supporter says. "He always used to joke about running for high offices--why he declared for president in 1963. I think he imagines himself to be an Italian John Kennedy...