Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Time, Another Place (Lanturn Productions; Paramount) should provide an answer to one of Hollywood's most pressing questions: How will the recent scandal about Lana Turner's private life affect her public appeal? At a preview of this picture, when Actress Turner's name flashed on the screen, cheers rocked the galleries. The picture itself might more suitably be greeted with groans, but it is just the sort of soap opera that can be useful in laundering a reputation...
...first half of 1957), may have to ask for more. Pan American's Latin American division, which in 1956 went off a subsidy that had been averaging $11 million a year, and Panagra, which went off subsidy at the end of 1954, may have to appeal again for aid from...
...experts debated the question of whether to go on testing nuclear weapons, thousands of U.S. Protestant churchmen and churchwomen lined up last week on the stop-the-tests side. Items: ¶A widely assorted 140 Protestant clergymen and educators, including nine bishops, signed an appeal to all Christians to back up the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches in its declaration against testing (TIME, Aug. 12). Among the signers: Methodist Bishops Charles W. Brashares of Chicago, Eugene M. Frank of St. Louis and John Wesley Lord of Boston; the Right Rev. W. Appleton Lawrence, retired Episcopal Bishop...
...Russia's big lures is its interest rates and repayment terms. U.S. loan interest is high, usually 4%-4½%, compared to 2% on Russia's $100 million loan to Afghanistan, repayable over 30 years. But perhaps the chief appeal of the Soviet program is that Russia, a nation that still needs many raw materials and foodstuffs, can accept commodities in trade that Western countries already have in abundance. The U.S. is actually a competitor of underdeveloped nations in selling such surplus items as rice and cotton, buys many other commodities only when they are scarce...
Bernat made his accusations before the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Republican Party, in an unsuccessful appeal for a Republican charter for the Eisenhower Club. Claussen gave no importance to the fact that his mother is a member of the Executive Committee which rejected Bernat's petition...