Word: attracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than those who ran the annual stag party for the class of '43, but the Union Committee feels that an active business staff can more than make up in advertising revenue and "drag" entertainment what has been lost in appropriations. Money spent by the Smoker Committee is used to attract celebrities, such as Rochester of "Buck" Benny fame and Ray Perkins, both of whom appeared last year...
Duties of the Jubilee Committee include hiring a band which will attract all the Yardlings past an expensive turnstile, decorating the Union dining hall, and providing refreshments...
...batch of Cole Porter music on a Tums Pot o' Gold program. On hand was Porter himself, who made a speech defending ASCAP's position in its war with B. M. I. One purpose of the show: to find out whether the lure of ASCAP music would attract more listeners in Manhattan than the networks (vowed to B. M. I. tunes) could entice. This week ASCAP will continue its test, guest-starring Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. On the national front, meanwhile, ASCAP will put on a weekly hour-long coast-to-coast program of ASCAP songs over some...
Today tennis is still played for fun, but mostly by dubs, has-beens and never-will-bes. Many of those who play well enough to attract a crowd want to get paid for it. They sweat through amateur tournaments the year round to get their names in the papers, to enhance their box-office draw. The national championship, the goal of every U. S. amateur, is now also a convenient gateway to professionalism-the necessary first step to a barnstorming exhibition tour (for a guarantee...
...world's great art capitals seldom produce artists: they attract them. Up to last year, when Nazi armies dispersed its teeming traffic in art, Paris was the world's No. 1 art centre. But only a relatively small percentage of the art that Paris bought, sold and chattered about was made by Parisians...