Word: ears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Singh: "Do you have to use many languages out there?" Uno: "Oh, I get along on me Irish.") Then who should stalk in but austere U.S. Delegate John Foster Dulles. He whispered a discreet, wholly unofficial word in Singh's ear. Sir Maharaj called off the show...
...indignant. In his 16 years as a waiter at the Café de Flore, in Paris' bohemian Latin Quarter, Pascal had heard more crackpot talk about art, letters and life than a hundred ordinary men hear in a lifetime. For Pascal, most of it went in one ear and out the other. But he remembered that last year there was a haze of glory around the Café de Flore, when Existentialism was in its first febrile flower. Jean-Paul Sartre, the wall-eyed little founder of Existentialism, and his disciples jabbered nightly at the Flore. Admiring sightseers came...
What's wrong with U.S. advertising? Most admen have turned a stony ear to outsiders who have grumbled that ads were too extreme, inane and misleading. But in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, admen squirmed as an insider, in the simplified and exaggerated terms of an eye-catching ad, told them off. Said Miss Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, advertising director of Gimbels: advertising stinks...
...late-November, or ear-nipping and climactic stage of college football, only two major teams were still unbeaten and untied. Georgia was a good Class B team plus a back who did almost everything right; U.C.L.A. was a powerhouse squad of 55 players, most of whom had seen action in every game this season...
...worth a good deal more. It reproduces the soft, small tones that give depth and texture to music with a clarity and realism that are startling to owners of average instruments. It is, in fact, perhaps the only set on the market that would completely satisfy a golden ear."* The FORTUNE survey passed over lower-priced, lower frequency sets like Crosley, Philco and RCA-Victor, discussed chiefly such visually satisfying high-priced machines ($495 and up) as Scott (with its "impressive assortment of tubes, wires and gadgets on a chromium-plated base"), Capehart (which "holds 20 discs and turns them...