Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fernández Pérez, president of the Rustic Estate Owners, a tobacco farmer and rancher and onetime Castro supporter, now an outspoken critic (TIME, June 22). Then Castro summoned press, labor and government delegates from all over the hemisphere to Cuba this week to hear him explain what a good idea land reform...
Diners near the bandstand could hear the squeal of the buzz mute being fitted into the bell of the horn. The pudgy little man with the wispy mustache lifted the tarnished trumpet, looked right to the piano player, back to the drummer. Then Trumpeter Jonah Jones patted out two measures with a soft left foot and took the first three pickup notes of I Could Have Danced All Night...
...Steps in Time (Harper; $4.95). More a theatrical log than a self-portrait, the book brings Astaire from his Omaha boyhood (papa was a brewer of Austrian descent) to the pinnacle of popular dancing, a position he has enjoyed for half his life. Astaire fans will be elated to hear that the end of his career is nowhere in sight. Writes the mellowing top-hatter: "What is this age bit that goes on about actors and athletes, anyway? . . . For some years I've been looking for the quitting signal . . . the time when the years would simply show too much...
...Story of the Blues (Delia Reese with Sy Oliver and his orchestra; Jubilee). Songstress Reese is the victim of a saccharine script of interpolated commentary ("You're gonna hear the truth, 'cause that's all the blues is"). But when she is allowed to sing, as in Empty Bed Blues, she belts out some familiar and gutty reflections: "Let me warn you/If you've gotcha some good lovin'/Don't be a fool and go and spread the news...
Sunday evening Vesper Services in Appleton Chapel of Memorial Church, held each week at 8 p.m. under the auspices of the United Ministry to Students, will give Summer School students the opportunity to hear well-known preachers throughout the session...