Word: hithering
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...Hollywood pressagents, gets its disks from Rainbo Records, whose president, Jack Brown, ran a World War II experimental project for the U.S. Navy to combat mosquito pollution by wooing the insects with recorded mosquito mating sounds. In its second issue Hear plans to woo fans with the breathy, come-hither voice of Marilyn Monroe, who will chat "about her romances . . . and all sorts of things...
...Elephant Ride. All around them, saffron-robed Brahman priests bustled hither and thither, frequently consulting notebooks to get the complex ritual straight. An occasional argument in stage whispers broke out and was quickly hushed. After the royal couple mounted the throne-at exactly the auspicious moment of 10:43 a-m-the nead Priest, moving carefully so as not to knock off the young King's glasses, placed upon the monarch's head a peaked helmet adorned with bird-of-paradise feathers* and some $2,000,000 worth of precious gems...
...derive a good deal of pleasure, and often find a reason to link up one or other of the hither to neglected books, by having some kind of loose system in your reading. I don't suggest anything like a set list, or 'planned reading'; one's instinct rightly rebels against such regimentation . . . But there are all kinds of excitement and adventure to be had from associative reading. I have never thought very much of Wordsworth as a poet, or found him a man attractive in himself...
...hangs on the problems of a group Americans know little about. In India, there are many names for them-Anglo-Indians, Eurasians, half-castes, chee-chees, blacky-whites, eight-annas.* Victoria Jones, an eight-anna girl, is "the color of dark ivory." She is a lush beauty with come-hither eyes and a figure that would make an hourglass seem angular. But in 1946. with the British on their way out of India, Victoria's problem is acute. ("We couldn't become English, because we were half Indian. We couldn't become Indian, because we were half...
...current shelves, Victor's Music to Help You Sleep offers such sentimental oldies as Beautiful Dreamer, Love Walked In and several more, with a come-hither jacket picture of a redhead in negligee perched on the edge of bed. Columbia's Dream Time Music by Paul Weston offers Embraceable You, Over the Rainbow, Why Shouldn't I?, etc., with a disheveled, shirtless brunette striding through a misty landscape...