Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mavis and Emil (Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman) traipse out to the country retreat of an old pal, a writer, Edward (played by Costigan); they hope to lure him back to Hollywood to dash off a screenplay of Walden. But what they really like about Eddie is that he swings. It seems that Mavis is a nymphomaniac, Emil tres gay, and Edward can play both ways...
...scores and 25,000 phonograph records. Their productions are not surpassed in more than half a dozen opera houses in the country. But even at that, Bain thinks of his Opera Theater as Macy's thinks of its Broadway windows: the glamour of the opera is only a lure to attract students to the business of learning music. When 948 music school graduates let the music school know what had become of them last year, it was no disappointment to Bain that only 57 were professional musicians. Of the other 891, no fewer than 713 are teachers of music...
...takes a train out on business trips but flies home to save time. To tempt other businessmen to ride the rails at least one way, Langdon's B. & O. last week announced a 31% cut in some first-class fares between Eastern cities and the Midwest. If the lure fails, the B. & O. will move to end its money-losing passenger service. This kind of pragmatism, coupled with assistance from the Chesapeake & Ohio that controls the B. & O., has helped to revive the nation's oldest railroad. Since Cornell-trained ('30) Lawyer Langdon became chief...
...Turkey, and he fervently wants his film to remind us "that we are all immigrants and that we all came here looking for something." The pity is that he does not begin to make explicit what that something is. As a scenerio writer, Kazan fails to communicate the dreamlike lure America holds for the foreign-born. Facts come through with splendid candor, but the feelings lie mute in family legend...
...effect on consumption of stronger stuff. Instead, said one journalist, beer is now "considered a supplement to the normal vodka ration." Other measures to cut down drinking have proved just as hopeless. One town used its "corkage" taxes from vodka sales to build a sports stadium, apparently thinking the lure of sports would take people's minds off liquor. The populace flocked eagerly to the games, all right-with a bottle of booze in almost every pocket...