Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attraction: Xavier Cugat); rock-'n'-roll is banned, and Owner Brecker hopes to move on to a whole new type of clientele. The old Roseland was advertised only in the tabloids, but the new establishment will run regular ads in The New Yorker, where, presumably, they will appeal not only to the "poor clerks" but to the college prom trotters, eggheads and exurbanites as well...
...between a good and a great poet lies in the lyricism, evocation and after effect of his oracular lines and, most important, in the cry of recognition drawn from the reader. This collection of poems, written over the past 25 years, falls far short of greatness, yet has extraordinary appeal. Fitzgerald blends his commitment to the present with a deep love of the pagan past (with Dudley Fitts, he has ably translated Sophocles' Oedipus Rex), and his work flickers in and out of the centuries. A singing Georgic to husbandry...
Etiquette & Fables. The Boing-Boing Show probably makes the most artful use of color yet seen in television; the reason is that the palette is in the hands of artists. Even though it loses much as black-and-white viewing, the show's appeal is unique in current programing. Its light comic touch, in both content and style, keeps the most fragile whimsy aloft and should start adults elbowing children for space in front of the set. In fact, its one flaw may be that in reaching adults it loses the younger of the young...
Uncle Willie (by Julie Berns and Irving Elman) is Comedian Menasha Skulnik, long a favorite with Yiddish-speaking audiences and lately also on Broadway (The Fifth Season, The Flowering Peach). In Uncle Willie his extraordinary appeal does what it can to offset a miserably sleazy play. Cast as a turn-of-the-century do-gooder who deals in everything from pins to cemetery lots, he marries off immigrant cousins, assumes family mortgages and is good to little children. But above all he gradually converts a feuding two-family house, half Irish and half Jewish, into a bower of sweetness...
...policy has begun to pay off in growth if not yet in increased profits. Sales in McCall's pattern division rose 15% in 1956. McCall's circulation increased 242,000 to 4,756,839, along with a 5% rise in ads. Redbook, which earlier switched its appeal from fiction to articles for young homemakers, boosted its circulation 114,000 to 2,286,500 in 1956, picked up another...