Word: loreleis
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...into her dank basement dressing room and asked modestly, "Would you mind reading a script of mine?" The wraith maintained her poise in the face of Noel Coward, managed to say: "I'd like to." A couple of days later, after a ten-minute reading, the cleft-chinned Lorelei of the West Fifties was signed for the lead in Coward's new comedy, Look After Lulu, due to open in late February...
...wild one") Greco, rode into battle for his protégée. Through a London gossip column, U.S. Moviemaker Carl Foreman irritably reported that Zanuck was over-pushing Greco for a fat part in Foreman's new picture, Guns of Navarone. Zanuck, who elevated his black-haired Lorelei from subterranean boites to stardom in The Roots of Heaven, angrily denied the Foreman charge: "I have no control of any sort over her career." Greco may have given Zanuck that impression by accepting the lead in a British-German film against his advice. When he descended on her German...
...nonnative enterprises-the Arkansas state government; the Missouri Pacific Railroad repair yards in North Little Rock; the nearby Little Rock Air Force Base (biggest employer)-and as such, before the crisis, had no one thing to demand its attention. General Douglas MacArthur is from Little Rock, so are fictional Lorelei Lee of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ("I'm Just a Little Girl from Little Rock") and Nellie Forbush of South Pacific. Says one Little Rock citizen: "It's always been an easygoing town-hunting or fishing on Sunday. If you don't want to do too much...
...important postwar trade show swarmed 100,000 buyers from 74 countries. The most conspicuous visitors to the Hannover Industry Fair last week were 70 Russians, the biggest group of top Russian technical experts ever to visit West Germany, who hungrily eyed the finely tooled Ruhr machines and spread the Lorelei song for more East-West trade. Never before were the Red traders so active and abundant. Poland sent 200 engineers; Red China dispatched 30 stonefaced, baggy-trousered representatives to drum up business...
...Clive Staples) Lewis is a High Anglican Lorelei in the gown of a Cambridge don. The author of The Screwtape Letters lures not to shipwreck but salvation, and many a troubled 20th century secularist who came to scoff at Lewis' faith has fallen prey to his urbane style and good sense. Years ago, he was a highly troubled secularist himself ("I had tried everything in my own mind and body; as it were, asking myself, 'Is it this you want? Is it this?' "). Surprised by Joy is an autobiographical mirror held up to a questing soul...