Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some said it sounded like "pon!" Some believed it was more like "pan!" Others claimed that "pitchi" or "patchi" or even "zuboo" best described the sound, while others were willing to swear it was a whispered "pussu" as dainty as the beat of a butterfly's wings. Whatever the sound, it was certain that it took a sharp ear to hear it. But sharp ears were bent to catch it: last week, as they had each summer for upwards of two centuries, Japan's perceptive poets and philosophers listened more carefully than ever for the soft explosion...
...Angeles, highbrow Composer Igor Stravinsky (The Firebird) sued Music Publisher Lou Levy (Beat Me Daddy) for $250,000. Levy had published a lowbrow version of a Firebird theme (TIME, Nov. 3), and described the music as Stravinsky's, said Stravinsky. He said he had positively not written it, and the whole thing was terribly humiliating...
...spring Boston sportwriters leaped on old Joe McCarthy and his Boston Red Sox. They had boomed the Sox as the team to beat in the American League, and the Sox simply had not lived up to their advance notices. The writers dubbed the team the "bloomer boys," and wrote long, helpful columns telling Marse Joe McCarthy, winner of eight pennants for the New York Yankees, how to run a ball club...
...Irving Belt, 64, who joined the old Washington Times 48 years ago as a hand typesetter. When he heard of his inheritance, his ailing heart began fluttering and he took to his bed. ¶Night Managing Editor Mason Peters, 33, a Navy veteran, was hauled up from the police beat by Mrs. Patterson. When asked how it felt to be a millionaire, he brushed it off: "Oh, I'm not interested in the money. It's my pencil-my career in the newspaper-that interests...
What Makes Louie Run. The man who makes the heart beat is short (5 ft. 5 in.), impish Louie Seltzer, just starting his 21st year as boss of the Press. Seltzer was born in a cottage back of a Cleveland firehouse, the son of Charles Alden Seltzer, an ex-cowpuncher who wrote westerns. Louis quit school at 10 to be a copy boy on the late Leader, became a cub reporter at 18. One day a new building collapsed in downtown Cleveland. Down three flights of stairs from the old Press city room scampered Seltzer...