Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day the Communists won one of their few victories: knocking down three early-model Australian Meteor jets and one U.S. F-80, and losing only two MIGs. Cease-fire and lull were two words that airmen on both sides could not hear and did not heed...
...Digest is in Finland. The Portuguese-and Spanish-language Digests are tops all over the continent of South America; the Japanese edition is now 651,000. The Digest is printed in eleven languages, read in 58 nations. In the U.S., 31,000 U.S. blind read it in Braille or hear it on Talking Book editions...
...third of it and put in something else. He makes the final decisions, when he is at Chappaqua. But he is often away: he and Lila may pick up suddenly and go off on a three months' trip to Honolulu or Pago Pago, and no one will hear from him until he walks back into the office...
...music lovers can now hear the paraphrases on the immemorial "Chopsticks," or Tati-Tati, as it later was called, performed by full orchestra. Alfred Frankenstein, music critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, had a copy of the paraphrases, suggested to Conductor Werner Janssen that he orchestrate it. Columbia Records heard about it, suggested a recording with Janssen conducting the Columbia Symphony. A little research revealed that half of the paraphrases had already been orchestrated, under the title Tati-Tati, by a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov's, Nicolai Tcherepnine. Columbia put Tcherepnine's version on one side...
Last week a script was all ready for shooting, and Kramer had agreed to narrate it himself. When he turns it over to Whitney, for showing at schools and sales meetings, he will have made a neat little sale himself. Thousands of salesmen (and potential movie customers) will hear Producer Kramer explain: "Death of a Salesman was a great play. It will be a great picture...