Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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White risked his political prestige on the success of the measure as well as more than $900,000 of Boston's coffers...
Julie herself admits that the team's cohesiveness, in addition to their superior fitness which helps them outrun most other teams, and their coaching, has been a vital factor in the team's phenomenal 11-0 success. Naturally she takes no credit for that cohesiveness, emphasizing that it derives from the dedication of each individual member of the team...
DIED. Maybelle Carter, 69, matriarch of country music's Carter family; of Parkinson's disease; in Madison, Tenn. Formed in 1927, the Carter Family trio achieved lasting success by recording such traditional folk songs as Wildwood Flower and Will the Circle Be Unbroken, with member Maybelle becoming celebrated for her alto voice as well as her unique guitar and autoharp licks. When the group disbanded in 1943, Carter started out anew with her three daughters as Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, and later toured extensively with Daughter June and her husband Singer Johnny Cash...
...series' success will register later on millions of bathroom scales. Earlier indexes are available. The first episode drew a bigger audience than the debut of I, Claudius, a PBS hit last winter. Producer Hawkes-worth, who knew Rosa Lewis, says he is "happy that Americans enjoy her story, because she adored Americans. Reckoned they were all millionaires." She was wrong, but her eye, as always, rested squarely on the main chance. Rosa would have done very well in the U.S., and, with her hotel booked through next January, so should Louisa Leyton. ? Paul Gray
...space to only one Shaw: George Bernard Today the Irwin Shaw Show means more than the Irwin Shaw books: Rich Man, Poor Man has eclipsed his previous works and further diminished his literary reputation. That is a mixed curse: the TV miniseries was comic-book melodrama; yet, without its success, this out-of-print collection of collections would probably not have been issued, and a short-story master might have been missed...