Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Though Hollywood's box office has been slumping, there are still surefire receipts in a lavish Technicolored musical-and not enough surefire cinemusical stars to go around. As the cinemusical girl of 1950, Betty holds just about as firm a grip on the immediate future as Hollywood can offer...
...Cord Meyer, Jr., past president of the United World Federalists, will offer his suggestions for the future and present his opinion of how some problems of peace might be met. This lecture is also scheduled...
Many cynical or just practical 'Cliffedwellers checked the box on the poll marked, "Best Available." "I've done better--also worse," said a freshman, while another added, "Nothing around here has more to offer than Harvard, but for all the intelligence we know the fellows have, they often don't have the common sense to know...
...turned down a $100,000 offer to appear in a movie. He didn't want easy money -he wanted to build the "great American car." With three Detroit automobile men, he formed the Rickenbacker Motor Co. His dream child, the six-cylinder Rickenbacker automobile, was unveiled in New York in 1922. After four years, the Rickenbacker flopped. It was too advanced, and the automobile industry "beat my head in"-in part with advertisements warning the public that four-wheel brakes (with which no automobile but the Rickenbacker was equipped) were dangerous...
...material is poor to middling. Robert Sherwood's "The World of the Blind" is, briefly and completely, and American-soldier story. henry Fletcher ("Hurry to Get there") is in the great tradition of high-school literary magazines right down to the last "yeah" of his criminal escape story. I offer this quote "His eyes followed her without moving his head as a man watches an art trying to crawl out of a glass." As for James Chance's "Home is the Sailor," suffice it to say that a combination of James M. Cain ("Mark lit another Camel . . .") and James Joyce...