Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rover Boys any day, if they had the choice. Miss Phyllis R. Fenner is sure of it, and she ought to know. For nearly 20 years tweedy, witty little Miss Fenner has presided over a remarkable library in the elementary schools of Manhasset, L.I. Miss Fenner has a sympathetic ear for what children really like, and her library is a favorite hangout of Manhasset moppets. In "Our Library" (John Day; $1.75), Miss Fenner explains: "Give the children the adventure they crave, but give them books written with sincerity and honesty...
...city's 66,245 volunteers only in minor jobs. Blackouts were almost perfect. Mr. Rossi, who sells flowers on the side, doused his shop's electric sign, which had been left to glisten through a previous blackout. Sirens, at first inaudible above the traffic, were more ear-piercing. San Franciscans had sand in their homes, were ready to fight incendiaries...
Twenty-three of these spots will be broadcast weekly between 4 and 5 o'clock. The announcements are not to be the ear-racking and hackneyed transcriptions so prevalent on local stations, the Network officers stated...
...Whidby Island in Puget Sound, the farmers' beach patrol was on watch, night after night, regardless of Senatorial questions and military reverses, with "an eye to the sky and an ear to the ground." The volunteer harbor patrol at Seattle, run by the man who was once the fastest tap dancer on the Pantages circuit, cruised over Lake Washington. In the immense structural shop at the Charleston Navy Yard the work went on: the steel plates rumbled through the press rolls in surging roars, the hydraulic presses crunched down, the giant shears clamped through metal, the brilliant blue glare...
...Master Argument of the chains is that they are "publications for the ear." In place of a determinable "circulation," they offer to advertisers time on a fixed number of stations they can be sure of. To remove that certainty, they say, would be like removing a publisher's certainty that he can deliver his magazine in certain cities. For FCC to threaten such action through its licensing power, they say, corresponds to an attack on the freedom of the press...