Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take exception to your editorial comment that the public is not "clamoring" to buy Joan Crawford? Having had the privilege of producing her last four pictures and starting on her fifth, I can assure you that the only people in America who like Miss Crawford are. the moviegoers . . . Since when is "sophisticated fortyishness" not attractive? I firmly believe that this country is growing up, and in so doing can have other tastes than dewy-eyed youngsters on their screens . . . Miss Crawford's legions of followers are larger today than at any previous time, while her career has never been...
...should like to commend TIME for its fair and accurate account of the conviction of my husband, Larry Gara, for "counseling, aiding and abetting" non-registration for the draft...
There is one point, however, which I would like to clarify. Although it was perhaps not intended by the writer, one could draw the conclusion that Larry had deliberately sought martyrdom, and that now, by applying for parole, he is relinquishing his former position and seeking a quick way out. Larry is a teacher who was trying to mind his own business. When one of his students decided upon the "hard and lonely road" of a non-registrant, we indeed "hustled to his aid," but with no idea that giving moral support and comfort to him constituted a violation...
...Like them or not, modern houses are here to stay." That is not true. The so-called modern house is an ugly blot on a fine tradition, and like any infectious disease will pass away...
...Women are still the homemakers of America and they are . . . smart enough to know that it is to their advantage to remain feminine. They will always like the warm, pretty things that become them, and modern, in its present form, does not. It is made...