Word: wooing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country two years ago had Portugal so eagerly awaited a guest. And Britain, too, had high hopes for Princess Margaret's "private visit" to England's "oldest ally": her appearance at the Federation of British Industries' $3,000,000 fair in Lisbon might do much to woo Portuguese trade away from the Germans. But by the time Margaret's visit ended last week, there was little joy or tenderness left in Lisbon. "Everything the British embassy has done," snorted 0 Século, "has been as if Portugal were too dangerous for people to visit...
...Inter-American Development Bank. But the U.S.'s Delegate Thomas Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, pointing to "the very heavy burden which the American taxpayer today bears in order to create a defensive shield for the U.S. and for the hemisphere," urged Latin Americans to woo private capital...
...This comic doesn't try to teach anything," says Creator Abeson, now making plans to introduce Willie Woo on television. "I hadn't thought of it as a reading aid-but we hear about teachers using Willie Woo in their classes." This is a destiny unlikely to overtake any of Willie's more established competitors...
...authors of the new strip, Willie Woo, claim it is the first comic to be set to music. Each weekly sequence ends in a simple song composed by Marion Abeson, a Manhattan attorney's wife who has sold more than 5,000,000 records of her songs for children. Mrs. Abeson usually dreams up the strip continuity, too, hands her ideas over to Freelance Artist Marvin Friedman to draw...
...Florida, Lemmon's bewigged and beaded feminine charms catch the eye of a much-married millionaire (Joe E. Brown). Curtis meanwhile finds time to forsake female impersonation long enough to quick-change into yachting cap and blazer, and woo Marilyn with a fairly good impersonation of Cary Grant. At the end, boy wins girl, and old boy is still hotly pursuing his falsied Lemmon...