Word: hear
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Those who knew Henry Townley Heald when he was head of New York University say that he was never known to get excited or waste a word. Chancellor Heald was running true to form when he called in his top staffmen one day last June to hear a special announcement. "Gentlemen," said he matter-of-factly, "they've offered me the presidency of the Ford Foundation, and I don't see how anyone in education could turn it down." "That was all there was to it," recalls one of those present. "Here was a man getting the most...
...middle of the night, some bringing lawyers with them. The wife of one witness told CBS that she got an anonymous call saying: "We know your husband's talking to CBS." Dominican representatives in the U.S. refused to participate. One informant led CBS sleuths to his apartment to hear a recording in which by his account Galíndez' alleged assassin was identified. When they arrived the tapes had been stolen. CBS's frightening story within a story was manifest everywhere in the broadcast, and punctuated at the end by the fretful voice of the late Gerry...
...Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of New York; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of New York." The words were the prophet Isaiah's-about Sodom and Gomorrah-but the voice was the Southern smoothness of Billy Graham coming over the 18 loudspeakers in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The voice beat upon more than 18,000 people -seekers and servers of the Lord as well as the merely curious-and it etched itself upon the sliding ribbons of the tape recorders set up by radiomen. The evangelist...
...Much, Too Long. What went wrong? "If somebody could tell us," says an NBC executive, "maybe even Sid's psychoanalyst would be delighted to hear it." One part of the answer is simply that he has been visible too frequently for too long a time. Caesar's Hour has been uneven in quality, has suffered from a tendency to prolong sketches and milk laughs. Sidekick Coca is still missed, say diagnosticians, both for herself and because Caesar seemed more sympathetic as a henpecked fall guy in her sketches than he has as the assertive husband of Nanette Fabray...
...hear what Lucky Jim is really too gentle to tell, the reader must turn to an unlucky Jim-James Porter, irascible hero of John Osborne's play, Look Back in Anger (TIME, April 22). Look Back is a high-decibel three-act diatribe, mainly on mom, wife, God and country. Hero Jimmy has just written a poem called "The Cess Pool." His wife hovers over an ironing board-one of the endemic props of this school of social realism, together with dirty dishes and wet "nappies"' (diapers). At the slightest provocation Jimmy turns into a verbal epileptic, particularly...