Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between the preliminaries and the finals, the Russians stuck strictly to business, practiced hard. In the quiet music academy outside Brussels where the finalists were lodged, the Russians rose at 6, often started playing before breakfast. Said Houston, Tex. Violinist Fredell Lack, 29: "And you could hear them still going at night when the rest of us went to bed." Exasperated Dutchman Theo Olaf finally complained: "Is it absolutely necessary for you to practice until the middle of the night?" The Russians, who had been aloof at first but warmed up a bit when they asked for borsch...
...live under a benevolent paternalism. Their motives will be all wrong, socially . . . and unless under these conditions they prove completely barren they will sit on golden perches in golden henhouses fitted with microphones and peepholes in order that those who are responsible . . . for the expenditure of public money may hear and see and report events greatly wished. It is not a pleasant picture, but we shall get used to it." Fortunately, although Professor Synge professes to see no alternative, his book suggests...
John Hart won the one-mile Darcey Cup race in senior Siugles with Dick Emmet of the Law School second. Stu McDill and Sam Hear placed one and two in the three-quarter mile junior singles, while Frank Manheim and John Carnes came in first and second in the half-mile novice singles...
...Hear It Now (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Edward R. Murrow's dramatic on-the-spot recordings of the week's news...
...They have long since learned that this means: "Do you know any new developments affecting my business?" When any conversation strays far from engines Rentschler's eyes glaze over, and he stops listening. Wherever his men travel, he expects them to send him constant memos on anything they hear. If one hears an admiral say, "The Navy needs more engine power," Rentschler wants the dope by wire...