Word: interest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reflecting the ever-swelling interest of the U.S. public in art, 1959 was the biggest year ever in what was once considered a minor idiosyncrasy of publishing-the art book. Across the land, art lovers can choose among 500 art books published in 1959, and among prices ranging from the Cadillac to the hot-dog trade. Publishers are planning an even greater output for 1960. Few of the new crop are notably well written, and many offer lavish coverage of ground that has been covered before. But the boom is bringing art home to more Americans than ever before. Items...
...volumes a year until by the end of the 15th volume, 9,000,000 words and 7,000 plates will have passed into print. The price: $32 a volume, $480 for the set. Said McGraw-Hill President Curtis Benjamin: "We were attracted the great and very evident resurgence of interest in the fine arts in America, and by the fact that more than 5,000,000 students are now studying art in one form or another in the U.S.A." It is a fair bet the figure will keep right on rising...
...time she entered high school, Anne was a slick, style-conscious teen-ager -far more "sophisticated" than she is today-with a great interest in the boys. But always Mamma was there to keep her in check. "Once," says Anne, "my mother caught my older sister having sneak dates and beat hell out of her. I didn't want a licking, so I didn't do too much of that." And another time, when Annie smoked a cigarette onstage in an amateur production of Night Must Fall, her Aunt Kate yelled terrifyingly from the back of the hall...
...year income, but she gets only a $50-a-week allowance from her business manager. When she does not cook aftertheater snacks for herself, she relies on what Mamma sends down from Yonkers, where the Italianos now live. She owns Manhattan real estate, has an interest in a California bank and a Texas oil well, but she keeps warm by huddling in the kitchen of her Greenwich Village apartment, with both stove and oven going full blast...
...perpetrate a Triple Whammy on po' Li'l Abner? Will Appassionata von Climax (Stella Stevens) catch him in the annual Sadie Hawkins Day Race? Will Li'l Abner ackchelly have to (sob!) marry up wif "a female of THUH OPPOSITE SEX," thereby yielding her a half interest in Yokumberry Tonic? And if he does, what will happen to po' Daisy Mae (Leslie Parrish...