Word: avidity
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Died. John Reynard Todd, 77, lean, legally trained builder and manager of Manhattan's blossom-bedecked Rockefeller Center, and an avid amateur horticulturist (like his good friend Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn" has turned up on the screen quite cleaned up and edited, but the sordid spirit and the pat honesty are still very much in evidence. If the story is inclined to bore the avid action fan with its straightforward excess of emotion, then the indictment probably spares Hollywood and goes back to Betty Smith...
...courted her might reach from the Stork Club to the Mocambo. She has inspired one of them to the century's most poignant heart-cry: "Colby, you are the only woman in the world whom I'd like to pay alimony to." But another of the most avid of them, a European who in his spare time directs pictures at Warner Bros., once sadly explained to her: "Colby, I can't marry you. I want to be married to a woman, not an institution...
...World of Washington Irving, by Van Wyck Brooks, tells of a period in American history comparable to the present, when Parson Weems hawked books from his spring wagon and the people were avid for learning. Part of its value is that, in a time when there are not enough new books of quality to satisfy the demand, it directs readers to many excellent, forgotten U.S. writers...
...readers-or whatever you call them-now buy nearly a quarter-billion comic books a year. The avid addicts are not just kids, either; they include an estimated one out of every five U.S. grownups. At Army post exchanges, comic books outsell LIFE, Reader's Digest and Satevepost combined...