Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like everybody else, Harry Truman could hear the cheers and brass bands, but unlike everybody else, never once bothered to stick his head out the window...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Luigi Infantine, tenor; Carlo Badioli, bass; Giulietta Simionato, mezzo-soprano; Giuseppe Taddei, baritone; Antonio Cas-sinelli, bass; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Fernando Previtali conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Barber fans, used to hearing Rosina's arias trilled airily by a coy soprano, will be surprised to hear the role sung here by a more mature-sounding mezzo - as Rossini wrote it. Mezzo Simionato brings it off beautifully; so does Baritone Taddei as Figaro. Conductor Previtali keeps it sparkling throughout. Recording: excellent...
REPORTING: Elmer Davis (ABC), for the third time, and Hear It Now (CBS), for its "brilliant" use of tape recording in summarizing the week's news...
From the human interest point of view the American public will be interested to hear that, although a cricket ball is just as hard as a baseball, cricket players field barehanded. Only the wicket-keeper (catcher) has a pair of gloves. Those who think that bowling cannot be very fast because it bounces off the ground should note that the batsmen wear pads on their legs and have special half-gloves for their hands. Bowlers can generate terrific speeds with their curious stiff armed bowling (they are not allowed to throw). A fast bowler takes...
...change. While the trustees abolished the weekday requirement, they continued the Sunday morning chapel. Then in 1934, following a disturbance among undergraduates during services, the Princetonian charged that students never listened to any of the sermons anyway. Besides, the acoustics in the chapel were so poor they couldn't hear if they wanted...