Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constitutional walk at 7:30 a.m.: . . was back at the house at 7:50 a.m. for a breakfast of grapefruit-" A correspondent interrupted to ask: "Was it California grapefruit?" The man from the Federal Register said it had come from the kitchen. But Charley Ross, with an ear keenly tuned to Florida pride, was more positive. "It was Florida grapefruit," he said...
...Joseph Fields & Anita Loos; music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Leo Robin) lets the famous Lorelei Lee of the '20s gold-dig once more-this time to music. The blonde is played by Carol Channing, who last season rocketed from nowhere to minor fame in Lend, an Ear. Last week she drew rave reviews; one critic ecstatically called her "the funniest female since Fanny Brice and Beatrice Lillie...
...strapping man, and handsome as a juvenile lead, Clark Clifford was Harry Truman's nearest equivalent to a Harry Hopkins. He translated Harry Truman's ideas into bland, trudging prose, was the liberal wing's most effective advocate at the President's ear...
Poet-Critic Lloyd Frankenberg started with a good idea. He would write a plain-spoken book to "provide a bridge to modern poetry for readers . . . brought up on prose." And since "poetry is an art of the ear's discrimination," he would persuade a record company to issue an album of readings by the poets discussed in his book. The result: this batch of essays on modern poetry and an identically titled album (Columbia, 8 sides, $4.95; or LP, $4.85) of readings by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas and other modern poets...
...cold around Harvard, so objects like ear muffs, gloves, wool scarves, and mittens are good. Some women prefer clothes with more style, such as French gloves and nylon lingerie, but any female in her right mind will accept and appreciate a pair of stockings...