Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adapted from a 1936 movie called Libeled Lady (starring Jean Harlow), the complicated plot of Easy to Wed is oddly obtrusive for a musical. Van Johnson, whose millions of avid fans were first won by his freckle-nosed, boyish charm, is woefully miscast as a professional wolf who makes a living by compromising ladies. Only Comedienne Lucille Ball, a brash, bubbling extravert who is frequently used to bolster up badly contrived Hollywood farces, remains unfazed and funny through...
...Kagawa's place is not unquestioned. Many Japanese Episcopalians and Catholics frown on what they consider his avid fondness for the limelight. Newly appointed to Japan's House of Peers, he is among those whose seating General MacArthur has ordered delayed, pending determination of their status as "desirable personnel." Headquarters rumor predicted last week that he would not be purged, despite an unfavorable report by SCAP's Civil Intelligence Section...
...World to Win takes Presidential Agent Lanny Budd, a peripatetic pink who poses as a fascist, from the fall of France through the U.S. declaration of war. Lanny is a spy, plutocrat (son of a munitions magnate), sociologist, art expert, musician, "psychical researcher" and avid reader of Bluebook magazine-all in a handy, handsome, 6-ft. package...
...saved her from being arrested for larceny. He has also fallen head over ears in love with her. By page 36, Morina has loved him and left him (he's a sweet boy, she reckons, but what good's Cupid without a bank balance?). By page 47, avid Roger has tracked Morina to the red-light district in Virginia City; and by page 60 he is suffering pangs of anguish at seeing his beloved stand up nude on a piano and offer herself up for auction ("she never looked more beautiful or more horrible"). But by page...
Arkham House, publishers, wrote from Sauk City, Wis., to ask whether he had anything on hand. The presiding genius of Arkham House is 3 7-year-old Sauk City-born August Derleth, an avid writer of supernatural tales himself. Derleth has brought out upward of a dozen books under the Arkham imprint, all of them dealing with ghostly matters. Among his latest books, under another imprint: Who Knocks?, a Derleth-edited anthology subtitled Twenty Masterpieces of the Spectral for the Connoisseur...