Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season reached a roaring climax as the Dodgers and Braves fought it out for the National League pennant (see SPORT). Such was the objection of Ebbets Field to Umpire Vic Delmore when he made a bad call on Catcher Campanella at second base that there came a revelation, to hear the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Red Smith tell it, "that at least 34,022 people in Brooklyn have white handkerchiefs, a fact previously unsuspected." Such was the absorption of Milwaukee in the Braves that the arrival there of Campaigner Adlai Stevenson to deliver a nationwide TV speech...
...road last week as he had been for months before. One day started at 8:30 a.m., took Bender through seven counties, meeting with local Republican leaders, answering questions at high-school assemblies, bouncing into stores, banks, barbershops and courthouses to invite the occupants out to hear him speak on street corners. At every country store with a few cars parked outside, he stopped, entered, shook hands all around, and said: "I'm U.S. Senator Bender. I happen to be touring in your neighborhood and stopped by to say hello." All day long he preached the doctrine of Eisenhower...
When West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer rose to address a Catholic congress in Brussels last week, his audience expected to hear nothing more than an innocuous tribute to the ideal of European unity. What it got was something stronger. Said Adenauer: "In the long run, the European countries cannot fully develop their great energies ... if they continue to find their salvation and security exclusively through the patronage of the United States . . . What are vital necessities for the European countries do not always have to be vital necessities for the U.S., and vice versa; from this fact may result differences...
...Francisco Opera, second to Manhattan's Metropolitan in rank, is second to none in discovering and importing good foreign singers.*Last week it pulled a double coup, gave U.S. listeners their first chance to hear famed Bulgarian Basso Boris Christoff and beauteous Turkish Soprano Leyla Gencer. Gencer, loved at first sight, was the modest and moving star of Zandonai's rarely heard Francesco, da Rimini; Christoff, playing his temperament to the hilt, was almost the ruination of Boris Godunov...
...Francisco engagement sound unheard, after Director Adler scheduled Francesca, then learned that his star soprano (Renata Tebaldi) would be unable to take the role after all. San Francisco listeners found the old (1914) opera dull and static in spite of its lush arias, but Soprano Gencer was something to hear. Her voice is big, warm and beautiful, and capable of surging emotional power. The U.S. will be hearing more...