Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minn, (pop: 500) went looking for an electrician. He found Vernon Pick at nearby Two Rivers. Talking over the repair job at Pick's house, he was surprised to find the electrician had a library that would do justice to a college professor. Pick was equally surprised to hear the way the deacon talked electric motors (he had been installing communications equipment for the Bell Telephone Co. before he joined the church). Almost at once the two men fell to settling the affairs of the world. They are still...
Doubtful Decisions. The Dodgers' performance was all the more remarkable because, to hear the sports writers tell it in the preseason windjamming, the Brooklyn "Bums" were headed for nothing but trouble. All through spring training, the press sniped at Manager "Smokey" Alston with ill-mannered regularity. When Jackie Robinson had a beef about how seldom he was playing, he got columns of space in which to howl. When Catcher Roy Campanella had a complaint about his spot in the batting order (No. 8), his words were rushed into type. Dodger President Walter O'Malley wondered out loud...
...putting the chair in the hands of Corporation Secretary John Barr. But Wolfson stockholders insisted on answers from Avery himself, and the old man, lost in the clangor of shareholders' cowbells and the booming of loudspeakers, seemed confused, often crying out, "I can't hear...
...know why President Edmund Krider was being retained in view of Ward's steady profit drop. Avery turned away in bewilderment, searching for the voice out of the loudspeakers. "Turn him around." someone howled. Avery struggled for his bearings, turned back and pleaded: "I can't hear that at all. What's the purpose?" (Avery's daughter, Mrs. Rogers Follansbee, a spectator at the meeting, wept...
...that the U.S. had again caught the recitation bug was the smash success of the First Drama Quartette (Agnes Moorehead, Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Boyer) in Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, later superbly recorded by Columbia ($11.90). Then the three volumes of I Can Hear It Now . . . (Columbia; $5.95 each), Edward R. Murrow's playback of headlines and speeches from 1919 to 1949, sold a total of 500,000 sets. More than two dozen companies put tons of Vinylite at the disposal of almost anyone who would talk at it. Now the counters offer...