Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the war, many austerity-worn but patriotic Britons have rejected the lure of emigration, told themselves that every departure weakened the nation. Last week, Sir Frank Whittle, famed jet-propulsion engineer, declared that the opposite was true. Whittle launched a campaign to persuade 20 million of Britain's 50 million people to go to the Dominions. His argument, as expounded to the Council for a New Era of Emigration, is that mass emigration now would greatly strengthen the United Kingdom, especially if war should come. Britain's fundamental weakness, Airman Whittle believes, is its vulnerability through starvation...
...Angeles Mirror last week, Reader W. Roman Horning explained the heady lure of the letters-to-the-editor column. Wrote he: "I write to the editor to satisfy my ego and frustration when life is dull and the future looks dreary, when no one thinks or cares for the little man of an insignificant nature. When the editor is kind enough to put the little man's little say in the paper, it puts him up in the clouds of ecstasy...
Though Cagney settles down at the Academy as comfortably as if he were in stir, it takes some feverish scripting to get him there. A down-at-heel Broadway genius, he is hired by a producer ostensibly to stage the cadet corps' annual show, actually to lure the producer's singing nephew (Gordon MacRae) from an Army career to show business. Brass-baiting ex-G.I. Cagney rags the cadets so energetically that the corps makes him a plebe for a while to keep him on a leash-and, of course, to teach him to love West Point...
...survey, bused on a questionnaire, showed that 42 percent of the Class of 1954 felt Wellesley's academic standing was their chief motive. Prestige was the next most popular lure and 16 percent of the first year girls were influenced by their parents, alumnae relatives, or friends. Others mentioned special courses or location as reasons for coming...
...number of the good books by the faculty do go to outside publishers. The Press dooms this only natural but with its extensive facilities, the Press tries to lure the good books of the faculty. The Press boasts of a 51-person staff of editors, designers, account managers, advertising and promotion personnel, and sales executives...