Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Masaryk Street one morning last week to Belgrade's old Circuit Court Building. A waiting crowd of about 100 students set up a derisive howl: "Traitors! Bandits!" The two men in the lead, one a slight, wiry figure, the other a burly, tousled man, pretended not to hear. But at the doorway the small man turned to the taunters. "Kush!" cried Milovan Djilas, using the word Yugoslavs generally do to quiet howling dogs. Then Djilas, the deposed Vice President of Yugoslavia, and his companion, Vladimir Dedijer, friend and biographer of Marshal Tito, went inside to stand trial for daring...
...Auguste. Last week the ex-champ popped up in Miami Beach for a vacation with a new friend: Estelle Allardale, a pretty Californian from Beverly Hills and owner of a woman's-wear shop. Mindful of Jack's old weakness, his friends agreed that they could already hear wedding bells...
...capital's one decent hotel, found him a room with a local schoolmaster. Unruffled, Whitfield later ran through six shows. No one seemed to mind sharing the track with the Olympic champion. Would-be athletes flocked to run with Whitfield, to ask questions and to hear his advice. He usually talked about the need for selfdiscipline, the right mood ("If you're mad enough you can often win"), the right diet. That advice was not always easy to follow...
Generations of Americans have clustered about her knees to hear her stories; even when she was younger, Kathleen Norris sounded like Grandmother, recalling the gossip and the gallants of her girlhood. Between her first novel, Mother (1911), which sold an estimated 4.500,000 copies, and her latest (No. 78), so many of her books were sold that all count was lost. Novelist Norris could not even keep track of the number of her novels bought by the movies (at least 23, including My Best Girl and Wife for Sale). In her 78 novels she has written, by her estimate, about...
Twice during the Thirties Lamont visited Soviet Russia. Among the books he has written is one entitled: You Might Like socialism. "I dedicated this volume to my friends of the Harvard Class of 1924," Lamont says, "but have yet to hear that I made any converts among them." But he sees his own brand of socialism as being widely different from Communism. In fact, he has published a pamphlet listing 53 reasons "Why I am not a Communist." His own program Lamont describes as "socialism in economics, democracy in politics, and Humanism in philosophy." Elected as a Director...