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...both grim and racy. It was a week of murder, suicide, kidnaping, drowning, robbery, accident, divorce-an ordinary week. The Herald-Examiner's 40 reporters had once again discovered man's plight and told of it with inky excitement and a taste of gore. Then, in the din and jangle of their city room, they had submitted their findings to City Editor Agness ("Aggie") Underwood, who at 59 ranks unrivaled as the Ma Parker of American journalism...
...hectic week, nearly 200,000 screaming, clapping, foot-stomping fans swarmed into the Polo Grounds to watch them lose three games to the Los Angeles Dodgers and another four to the San Francisco Giants. Banners fluttered in the bleachers-WE LOVE OUR METS: RUN SHEEP RUN-and the din was deafening...
Then, above the din, he shouted: "Does it not occur to them that it might be a good idea if they could concentrate on one or two other things that also matter to the people of Britain? The time has come to say this-either they choose to go on wrecking our chances, in which case they ought not to be in the Labor Party at all, or they must agree to official policy. The British people are not going to be obstructed by a small bunch of neurotics...
Climax of Civilization. The company turned out to be congenial. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy took into tow a fellow named John Glenn. "Hey, John," yelled Bobby over the din to the astronaut, "come over here and meet the ambassador." After dinner, the U.S. Air Force's 30-piece "Strolling Strings" came into the hallway where guests were mingling. Linus and Ava Pauling promptly swirled into a Viennese waltz. Other couples joined in, and Pauling, flushed with success, ordered a tango. About that time Jack and Jackie entered and-since there's not supposed to be dancing...
Since the brain is primed to pick up certain "emotionally important words" out of the din coming into one ear-such as a reference to the partygoer or his interests-it may switch its attention back and forth between the two ears as frequently as three times a second. "You don't actually listen to both at once," says Dr. Moray. "You make up gaps in the conversations by drawing on your past experience of language. This is particularly easy when a conversation is dull and repetitious. In the same way, if the listener is bored with the person...