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...American Left Bank. Small, maybe, but in spirit a cultural frontispiece extending from San Francisco to San Simeon." With a flourish of the hand, he proceeded to reel off a list of names--poets of the technological age, bar-room bohemians and prophets of the "beat, sad-brown and breathless generation...
...singsong of Gabriel Heatter, still broadcasting after 32 years, the now-stilled, intelligent frog croak of Elmer Davis, the cocksureness of Fulton Lewis Jr., the literate wit of Eric Sevareid, the pear-shaped tones of Lowell Thomas. Gone now from radio is Winchell's clattering telegraph key and breathless bleat: too seldom heard is aging (79) H. V. Kaltenborn's clipped assurance. The news comes by short wave and on tape, the newsmen in snazzy ties and boutonnieres (ABC's popular John Cameron Swayze), and even in pairs (NBC's intelligent and informative duet, earnest Chet...
Five fire trucks clanged to a stop before University Hall yesterday afternoon after it had been reported that smoke was issuing from Mr. Bulfinch's building. Dean Bundy ran down its historic steps, calming down the breathless firemen, waiting photographers, and anxious students: only the insulation in the basement had caught fire, and everything was under control...
...Dave did the scene-stealing by bawling obligingly all the way through Ed's conversation with the four other Kennedy youngsters. And in the show's other half, CBS's electronic gremlins blacked out some of mournful Hollywood Singer Julie London's more breathless moments while projecting Julie's seven-year-old daughter almost too clearly. Asked what she does when confined to the house all day, Stacy replied: "I watch TV and drink...
Local merchants soon learned to stock their own stores from Filene's-if they could beat customers to the counters. As many as 150,000 breathless shoppers stormed the basement on the first day of a new sale-Boston fishermen and Harvard facultymen, U.S. Senators and Back Bay housewives. "Proper Bostonians," says a Filene vice president, "have always had an eye for a nickel...