Word: ears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reading by Ear. Like his father, ramrod-straight, close-cropped Joseph Pulitzer Jr. has eyes so weak that he can read only headlines. Two secretaries spend five to seven hours a day reading to him; his wife takes over in the evening. He conscientiously keeps up with plays and books which have a chance for Pulitzer Prizes. Sixteen weeks of the year he spends in a rented cottage at Bar Harbor, Me., duck-hunting in the Ozarks or fishing in Quebec -but keeps in telephone contact with his editors, and peppers them with yellow memos. Blind...
...findings, reported last week: of 44 station employes, 23 had normal hearing; eight had abnormally acute hearing in one ear; one was abnormal in both ears; six were subnormal in one ear; six were subnormal in both ears...
...bobby-soxed copy girl and brushed aside two proffered sacrifices-a reporter and an assistant editor, both of whom quickly identified themselves as "not the man you want to see." The marines finally reached the office of cigar-chewing Managing Editor William C. Wren. They told him in purple, ear-banging marine lingo what they thought of the editorial. Said the marines politely: apologize for the slur, or give us space to reply...
Payolas & Weepers. Pluggers, the contact men of the music publishing business, describe their work as "romancing" the bandleaders, crooners, record jockeys and network program directors. Their job is to get new and unknown tunes performed often enough to catch the popular ear and taste. To get their songs played, pluggers may have to bribe, cajole, suffer insults, golf with crooners, take conductors to the beach, keep blues singers in flowers, whiskey or cigarets...
...network song performances of the night before. After dinner, they catnap in a newsreel theater until the nightspots open. The pluggers spend an hour or so in each of the most popular spots, strategically seated at tables where they can vie with a dozen competitors for the eye and ear of influential bandleaders...