Word: attracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest artist and box-office draw, Kirsten Flagstad (holed up or held up in Norway); its next-best Wanerian soprano, Marjorie Lawrence (victim of paralysis); Tenors Jussi Björling (stranded in Sweden) and Tito Schipa (recalled to Italy). Like a consistently losing team, the Met did not attract packed grandstands...
...wish I had space to sketch the background of some of the other editors who have started to write for TIME in the past few months, but these will serve as examples of the kind of men and women TIME continues to attract...
City Lawyer is: 1) a frank description of how certain lawyers attract trade and win suits; 2) a docket of the civil-liberties cases whereby Lawyer Hays has helped to keep leftists out of jail and himself in the public...
...Dewey? This was the phenomenon of the New York campaign, that Dewey, a candidate whose mass attraction had long since faded under the hammer blows dealt him in 1940 and since, was being blindly accepted by the local bosses as the inevitable G.O.P. candidate for Governor. Dewey's strategy was to foster the myth of his inevitability. But many of the local chiefs were not so gullible. What they really wanted was a winner in the election, and to win they knew they must have a candidate with such a wide appeal that he can split great hunks...
...Delaware Park and the opening of Havre de Grace, it will fill a gap in the midEastern Seaboard's horse-racing circuit. Well aware that racegoers have spent record-breaking millions at Maryland and New York tracks this spring, ingenious Mr. Mori figures that his park should attract plenty of Philadelphians this summer. It is 10? by bus, 12 minutes by auto (even at 30 m.p.h.) and only 200 yards from a main-line Pennsy depot. But Mr. Mori may not have figured on all the uncertainties of wartime living...