Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They flew the 30,000 miles mostly aboard Military Air Transport Service and Air Force planes. Unpressurized cabins brought ear trouble. There was a running gag of one violinist asking his neighbor, "How did I play tonight? I couldn't hear myself." One flight, between Tokyo and Seoul, ran into a storm so Wagnerian that everyone but Director Don Gillis became violently ill. Gillis. with an oxygen tank but no mask, dashed up and down the plane spraying groaning musicians in the face with oxygen. "It may or may not have helped," he says...
...Ohio State University, Drs. Henry M. Moser, John J. Dreher and Herbert Oyer, backed by the Air Force, are trying to develop a special ear microphone. They have found that when a speaker's mouth is covered by a sound-absorbing baffle, his speech can be heard, weakly but distinctly, through a stethoscope in one of his ears. Picked up with a microphone, ear speech can be amplified until it is as loud as desired. It has a rather "bright" sound, but is not very different from mouth speech...
...beauty of the system is that an ear microphone does not get in the wearer's way and is easy to isolate from noise around it. The Ohio scientists tested the intelligibility of ear speech by giving six men the same test sentence to speak through both ears and mouth. When the outside noise level was low, both kinds of speech came over well, but as the noise was increased, ear speech forged ahead...
...hero-worship might have over blown a less elastic man than Golfer Fleck. But the operator and pro of Davenport's two municipal golf courses, as unpretentious as an ear of Iowa corn, has seen too much adversity in golf to let one victory, even though golf's greatest, pop his sides. After years of luckless touring on the winter circuit (in 1953 he won a total of $13-75), how did Jack Fleck win the big one in San Francisco? The trick-turner was the change in his putting. Although he once offered...
...critics. Critic Schein detects a sadistic dislike for women: "In The Outlaw, the young man, after prolonged abuse, humiliates the woman by choosing, in a tossup between her and a fine horse, the horse. In a priceless homosexual castration fantasy, the father figure of the film shoots off the ear lobes of the young man when he dares to defend himself. The pistol in westerns is by now accepted as a phallic symbol...