Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Secret of Roy Harris' long pull to success is his uncompromising individualism. He was 25 before he ever got a lesson in musical composition. Like Abraham Lincoln, on whose birthday he was born, he got his education the hard way, all by himself. In 1918, when he was mustered out of the Army, he drove a truck for a living, delivering 3,000 lb. of butter and 300 dozen eggs a day around Los Angeles...
...small part of Kimball's success (and a potent budget-balancing aid) is his ability to find eager, knowing young assistants who work hard for small pay. Several of his curators-Henry Plumer Mcllhenny, Henry Clifford, Boies Penrose -are so well off that Kimball affectionately calls them "my millionaires." Down into their pockets dig these three for many of the museum's top-flight special exhibitions. Even more significant is a growing list of "my young men" who now head important U. S. museums and got their first museum training under Kimball at Philadelphia. Some of them: Director...
Such Kimball coups have built the Philadelphia Museum. But modest Fiske Kimball refuses to take credit for them, has a beautifully simple explanation for the museum's success. "First we exploited the boom," says he. "Then we exploited the depression...
Fine weather enabled the Stahlmen to play every scheduled game, in contrast to last year when all but two dates were rained out. Consequently the trip should be tagged a success, in spite of the Crimson's poor won-and-less record, culminating in an 11-inning less to Columbia Saturday. Tom Healey was the victim of the 7-6 defeat, which began the Eastern Intercollegiate League season...
...cast that makes the most of many excellently written scenes, and never really lets the audience down. It has been said that the American stage is incapable of producing a good play about a contemporary dictatorship. Mr. Sherwood has done it; in achieving his success he has looked at tyranny from the north side of the Mannerheim Line, and to find its victims has trepanned the human skull and poked around in the gray matter inside...