Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein raises his baton this week on CBS's Omnibus to conduct Handel's Messiah. But a great many of his viewers are certain to be disappointed. They would much rather hear talented Lennie Bernstein talk about music than play or conduct...
...next four years Homer Bradshaw waited alone in prison, undergoing "a slow process of starvation." Not until last October did he hear the charges against him: espionage, "maintaining radio contacts with Hong Kong, Manila, Tokyo and the U.S." Says Bradshaw: "The greatest lies I've ever heard...
...genial competitor, Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, thinks he works about as hard as any man should, trying to get Chrysler back to 20% of the automobile market. "But most every Monday morning when I'm shaving out home in Bloomfield Hills," says Colbert, "I hear old Red Curtice's airplane flying in from Flint. And every Friday night when I'm home and tired and walking my dog, I hear Red Curtice flying home again." When he is in Michigan, Curtice spends most of his week nights not in his home in Flint...
...power on its own soil; they had overthrown the old religion and prospered. The revolution of 1688, which guaranteed a Protestant monarch, seemed to have fixed everything. But the bloody slogans of church-state and King-Commons still echoed in English ears, and men who no longer wished to hear a bugle or a Mass would listen to Handel, conversation, politics and smut. Often they listened to the Very Rev. Jonathan Swift, Anglican dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin, a man who could use the English language like a whip and was, in the words of his latest...
...Happy Time. In Knoxville, Tenn., Criminal Court Judge J. Fred Bibb refused to hear any more criminal cases during the holiday season, explained: "Jurors are full of the Christmas spirit, and are inclined to be lenient...