Word: majority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During one of Phillip's hospital sieges in Galveston, Mrs. Steven Culpepper. an Abilene housewife with one son of her own, heard of his plight and undertook to care for him. Her aim: major surgery, for permanent correction of Phillip's physical defects. For almost two years, no hospital would risk it because of court fights over Phillip's custody. But armed at last with full adoption papers affirmed by the state Supreme Court, Mrs. Culpepper took her adopted boy to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. There, during the summer, surgeons removed the nonfunctioning "left...
...gasped Major General Lew Wallace. "Did I set all this in motion?" In 1899, the hard-riding, hard-writing Civil War commander was already appalled by the smashing success of his first historical novel, Ben-Hur, which in 19 years had sold 400,000 copies. And that, though the general did not live to see it, was only the beginning. By 1920, a stage version of the general's work had been running 21 years, had been seen by 20 million fans, had grossed $10 million. In 1926, M-G-M turned it into the first of the cinemammoths...
...Jack Shore, president of the Sheridan Galleries, proudly revealed that Porcella had authenticated half a dozen similar masterpieces for him in the past year (among them a "Leonardo"). All were restored by Zlatoff-Mirsky, whom Shore identified as "one of the great undiscovered American painters." Normally, these would be major art finds, which would set every major U.S. museum scrambling. There has been no scramble...
...early days, Christmas, St. Valentine's Day and birthdays were the major occasions for greeting cards. Hall pushed the idea of cards for every sentiment, every event, now does 50% of his annual business outside of the big holidays. He went after such writers as Ogden Nash and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, brought in such artists as Saul Steinberg, Grandma Moses, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, sponsored touring Hallmark art exhibits across the U.S. He was told time and again that Sir Winston Churchill would never agree to have his paintings on greeting cards. Churchill was delighted, and Hallmark sold...
Waves of Myth. As Hughes sees it. American diplomacy, especially under the late John Foster Dulles, failed in three major ways: 1) Pursuing desirable but impracticable aims. Example: advocating "liberation" of the Eastern Europe satellites. 2) Pursuing contradictory aims. Example: aiding rebel Indonesian army officers while maintaining ostensibly amicable relations with President Sukarno. 3) Equating mere proclamation with policy. Example: the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East, an attempt to scare off Soviet infiltration that, in Author Hughes's opinion, failed...