Word: interest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur Godfrey has confessed to a growing interest in "atomic energy and fission, nuclear fission, and all those things." Fortnight ago he invited Physicist Dr. Wendell C. Peacock to give a brief atomic run-through on Arthur Godfrey and His Friends (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). The interview stalled when jittery bobby-soxers in the studio audience began to rustle impatiently for the program's handsome, 21-year-old Crooner Bill Lawrence. Scolded Godfrey: "I'm not very happy about the reception you folks give to a serious discussion when you come in here ... I'd like...
...Navy has an interest also in the political beliefs of its officers and men. Why it has such an interest is obvious. If a man's loyalty belong wholly or in part to the government of another country, he will not be an effective fighter in a war against that country. The right the navy has to take this interest is the right to know the competence of each man employed in guarding the security of our country...
Commenting on the purchase-card system at the request of Allen E. Kline '50, chairman of the purchase committee, Harris, who said he was speaking "as an economist who has some interest in the problem of financing higher education," stated that payment of college costs is "a great burden" on the average American family...
After two months of taking orders from "higher-ups", Bajuk and many other students were fed up. "Tito's leaders claimed their only interest was fighting Germany," he says, "but it was quite apparent to many of us that they were aiming for complete political power at the end of the war. By the time we saw that our resistance movement was communist-led it was too late to change...
Austin Cooper is a tweedy, grey-bearded Londoner of 59 who made his name as a poster designer. "But during the war," says Cooper, "my interest in posters faded. I found my hands were functioning without any volition. The first results were doodles, then automatic writing. I thought 'If my pen is doing this, why not the brushes?' One day my hand shot out. Much to my astonishment it picked up a brush and drew on a board...