Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty, 42-year-old woman and her cinema-famed husband who rarely travel on their tours without a $50,000 wardrobe. Movie Cowboy Roy Rogers and his wife Dale Evans top the bill at rodeos and circus stops across the country, where they put across a spiritual appeal that sends pistol-packing eight-year-olds off to Sunday school and their moist-eyed parents off to church. With their famed palomino horse, Trigger, they turn out a half-hour television show each week into which they are injecting more and more of a Christian message for the televiewers...
...career in a swirl of glory. His heavily larded oil paintings seem to glow with ever brighter colors. His reputation is steadily increasing. Because Rouault himself stood apart from the Paris-born art movements during his time, his work seems to transcend the fluctuations of contemporary tastes; the appeal of his religious subjects speaks more clearly with each passing decade. Rouault's powerful paintings glow in the mind like images in Gothic stained glass. With their strange, archaic quality, one critic noted, "Rouault has taken us back through the centuries to that moment when every image on earth...
...Star Co. and Ad Director Sees promptly announced that they would appeal; Federal Judge Richard M. Duncan meanwhile considered a motion to dismiss the case against Sees. Star Publisher Roy Roberts blasted the court's verdict, saying: "We sincerely felt that [the Government's case was] so flimsy it should not even have gone to a jury...
...change in the Star's ad and circulation practices will await the results of its appeal and hearings of a civil suit also filed by the Department of Justice. In the civil suit, which is now being prepared for trial, the Government wants the court to order the Star Co. to divorce its radio-TV station WDAF from the newspapers, and split up the Star and Times into two separate papers as far as circulation and ad rates are concerned...
...Star should lose both the appeal and the civil suit, the verdict would not only bring a big change in the Star's publishing practices; it could also affect about 180 other dailies that use the unit or combination rate. The U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled that the unit rate is not automatically unfair competition unless the Government can prove unfair practices in each case (TIME, June 1, 1953). But if the Star loses, the verdict could encourage the Justice Department to go after other papers that use the unit rate...