Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from job to job. He taught law at Tennessee and Cornell, during World War II served with the Foreign Economic Administration. In Washington after V-E day, he watched returning General Dwight D. Eisenhower ride up Pennsylvania Avenue in a victory parade. Larson flipped on his car radio to hear the general address Congress, remembers that "it went right through me. I was an Eisenhower man from then...
...together are Kentucky's blackhorse presidential candidate, guffaw-prone Governor Albert B. ("Be lucky, go Happy!") Chandler, and Chicago's weighty Democratic Boss Jacob Arvey. Enter, with a dust-devilish swoop, Washington's plain-spoken Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta. Grandam Mesta (to Chandler): I hear that you are running for President, but you certainly aren't taking yourself seriously, are you? "Happy" Chandler (hurt to the quick): I certainly am. I'm spending my own money, and I'm no fool. You know what they said about the man who sat down...
...Anthologist Newman (coauthor with Edward Kasner of Mathematics and the Imagination, a 1940 bestseller): "I'm dumbfounded at the reception the books have got. I don't write for a living. I wrote these books because I enjoyed doing it and, I suppose, because I wanted to hear myself talk-which is every author's reason for writing. The World of Mathematics is a very good book, but the fact that it's selling so well is really unrelated to the quality of the book-up to now, at least, because all that people have seen...
...event last month marked not only the turning point in one concert; it confirmed a turning point in a career. The big news was something that the whole jazz world had long hoped to hear: the Ellington band was once again the most exciting thing in the business, Ellington himself had emerged from a long period of quiescence and was once again bursting with ideas and inspiration...
...became one of Duke's sound trademarks. Other tunes lay fallow in the band's books until somebody set words to them and they caught on, e.g., Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Any More), Concerto for Cootie (Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear from Me). Ellington is accustomed to hearing his ideas unexpectedly used by other songwriters, and is resigned...