Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Promising Oversight. Heikkila fought off deportation with a ten-year series of habeas corpus writs, court restraining orders and appeals, including one appeal to the Supreme Court. But in handling Heikkila's latest delaying action in San Francisco's Federal District Court, his lawyer neglected to get a restraining order to curb Immigration's Barber. That oversight caught Barber's watchful eye. Letting his heaped-up frustrations overpower his judgment, he sent Immigration Service agents to grab Heikkila and haul him away...
Response to the appeal from local alumni has been exceptionally good With $8,543,206 already collected, Augustin H. Parker, Jr. '32, Program chairman for the Boston area, predicted that Boston would exceed its $11,000,000 quota before next June...
...motel, and everybody thought he had kidnaped them. Scripter John Vlahos could not resist the predictable switcheroo for a misty-moist ending (the Rangers discovered the publicity on the Beaver Patrol had been sensational, and Uncle Chuck finally felt wanted), sometimes seemed to be writing an artful recruiting appeal for parent participation in youth groups. But his simple story was redeemed by an authentic feel for the peculiarly Jewish blend of wry humor and forthright sense of Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, and the warm, shamblingly expert performance of Slezak, who can (and frequently has) played this kind of role...
Since 1950, when Kind Hearts cleaned up at the art houses, British Cinemactor Guinness has steadily built his mass appeal in the U.S.-largely with his marvelously comical knack of hooking the odd fish. But his audience is not limited to moviegoers. As the star of hundreds of filler shows, which exhibit his comedies habitually, he is a stalwart TV attraction too. By the middle '50s, Guinness was pulling his TV audience into U.S. movie theaters, and movie publicists were bragging that, on the list of British exports, Guinness Stout was hardly as well known as Guinness, Alec; that...
What will sell cars in the future? Says Researcher Cheskin: "The sober look, the dignified form, the basically functional gadget, the single color or truly two-tone color. Useless gadgets do not appeal to the 1958 shoppers and will appeal to the 1959 and 1960 shoppers even less. The jukebox effect will disappear. Elaborate ornamentation of chrome and multiple colors will be discarded. Finally, consumers are also beginning to resent forced obsolescence. When yearly fashions were limited to women's apparel, there was almost universal acceptance. The public did not resist the yearly car design changes. Then other hard...