Word: attracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfortunately, the name of the young actress who plays the adolescent did not appear in letters large enough to attract the attention of this reviewer. Whoever she is she already has more personality, looks and dramatic ability than Joan Caulfield. Miss Caulfield gets Crosby at the end, but only on seniority...
With typical Gidean restraint, he suggests his fondness for Arab boys, his rapturous admiration for statues of the male form, his habit of following strangers who attract him ("I go out a bit toward evening and shadow a couple of fellows who intrigue me"). Nothing, it seems, came to Gide so easily as tears. The Journals drip from crying jags brought on by Gide's reading, his music, visits to art shows ("visit to the Louvre . . . wept in front of the Rudes . . . in the theater the mere name of Agamemnon is enough. I weep torrents...
...effort by some airlines to attract more aerial freight cargo, United, American, and Pennsylvania-Central last week were pressing the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to reduce their freight rates on a number of commodities an average of 33⅓%, putting them just a few cents higher than those on railway express...
...meter free style in 4:38.4, three-tenths of a second better than the world record set in 1934 by the U.S.'s Jack Medica. Supreme Command Allied Powers officials thought that Furuhashi's mark would be internationally recognized, making him the first postwar Japanese athlete to attract overseas attention. Overnight, Furuhashi became the toast of Tokyo. An earnest office-worker wrote to the Osaka newspaper Asahi: "Each of us must become a Furuhashi. Herein we may find a way to solve the economic crisis...
Burr Under His Saddle. When Hollywood called Louis Evans in 1941, he was pastor of the steel-rich, conservative Third Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh. At first, the un-Presbyterian prospect of sports jackets and starlets did not attract him. "I said no at first when their call came," he said. "But later I realized it would be a burr under my saddle and that Hollywood would be one of the finest recruiting grounds in America. Also, I wanted to get my teeth into something...