Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Permit me to congratulate you on the high interest of your issue of July 12, particularly the brilliant, comprehensive and superbly written study of Evelyn Waugh...
...plight of Europe's displaced persons has of course been getting a great deal of attention-from Congress, from the press as a whole, from organizations, from individuals anxious to help. A pleasing indication of this interest is the response from TIME readers to the Zielezinski story. During the past few weeks a good many of you have written to TIME to ask how you can help displaced persons admitted to this country. For example...
Albert Einstein, delighted with Psychoanalyst Theodor Reik's book, Listening with the Third Ear, sat down and wrote the author a little mash note: "I have read your book with sincere admiration . . . I am of course merely a layman, but I have a natural scientific interest." Winston Churchill had also found a new enthusiasm. "Lately," he confided, "I have taken to farming in a modest way ... I think that if I had heard about it when I was young I probably should never have gone into politics...
Quick Turnover. Though the oil strike had turned the peaceful valley into a raucous wildcatters' camp, Cuyama's settlers (30-odd families) had no complaints. Postmaster Eugene Stutz sold his filling station and 13 acres for $125,000 and half interest in any oil found...
...Hell's Angels that Hughes first revealed his intense preoccupation with the female bosom (in one scene, Miss Harlow's neckline swooped almost to the navel). But it was in The Outlaw that his interest reached its fullest flower. In the flogging scene, when the bosom movement seemed unsatisfactory, Hughes decided that it was an engineering problem, called for his drawing board, designed a new brassiere for his star, Jane Russell. Thereafter the scene was shot to his entire liking...