Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...platform of Dayton's Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church, beamed down on perhaps 75 persons, and said hoarsely: "Don't worry. I'm not going to sing." He read a couple of pages of his prepared text, stopped and asked: "You don't want to hear this, do you?" At best, the audience seemed indifferent, so Bender scrapped his script, began pacing around, pounding on the rostrum, on the walls and on a nearby piano. He talked extemporaneously, mostly about singing. Said Cleveland-born Bender: "We don't hold meetings in Cleveland without singing...
...brisk business in tiny flags and miniature hats of the Bersaglieri, the Italian elite troops who were the first to occupy Trieste after Austria's defeat in 1918. At three minutes after 2, a voice boomed from the city hall balcony the news the crowd had gathered to hear: in London representatives of Italy and Yugoslavia had signed the agreement (TIME, Oct. 11) giving Zone B of the Free Territory of Trieste to Yugoslavia and Zone A-with the city itself-to Italy. "Triestini," cried the voice from the balcony, "now wave your flags...
Guest of honor at the Fort Worth opening was Francis Henry Taylor, director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, who went so far as to tell the Texans exactly what they wanted to hear: "The great future of the artistic movement of this country must inevitably take its leadership from the Southwest and Far West . . . Perhaps you here in your part of the country are not aware of . . . how much of a breath of fresh air you are blowing into the stagnant and inconsequential backwaters of the large Eastern cities . . . Make the best of our world and rejoice...
Generations of U.S. generals and lesser officers can still hear the thunder of that West Point organ-the thunder and sweetness that greeted them on their first tour of the Point and each Sunday in chapel. Braided veterans come back again and again to hear it and to talk to the thunderer himself. He is Organist and Choirmaster Frederick C. (for Christian) Mayer, one of West Point's major institutions. For 43 years, regardless of what changing taste in church music might dictate, Mayer chose such rousing processionals as Onward, Christian Soldiers and America, the Beautiful so that...
Last week Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson summoned his 24-man Egg Advisory Committee to Washington to hear poultrymen's demands for support buying of both chickens and eggs. But after the meeting the committee announced that it "believes in selfhelp, leaving to the industry the solution of its own problems...