Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walk out a free man, I would walk beside him . . . Never once did he do anything of which my mother would be ashamed." But News of the World's 8,000,000 readers would have to wait for Haigh's own story. Until his appeal had been heard, English law, safeguarding his rights to the end, would not permit Haigh to prejudice his case by telling all in public...
Songstress Mindy Carson has been melting the steel ears off the song-weary help for the last four weeks. Wrote nightclub critics: "Sensational," "ear-caressing," "the most exciting gal singer we've heard in a long time." Next week the Coba moves Mindy to the top of its bill. She is the youngest singer (22) who has ever headlined the big-time Copa...
...Bronx's James Monroe High School band said she was "not good enough" to sing with his outfit. Mindy believed him, meekly took a job as salesgirl in a Manhattan candy shop. After the Christmas rush, she went to Miami to visit her aunt. A nightclub owner heard her singing with the rest of her party, offered her a job. A scared 17, she answered: "I have to go back to work." But work at the candy shop was never the same again. Mindy quit, and her parents gave her a year to get somewhere in show business...
...first, the War Memorial board stood firm. "O.K.," cried Trustee Richard Newhall, "so I'm one of the heels of San Francisco . . .!" Later, he announced, "I never heard of this Madame Flagstaff till this came up." His opponents howled at his howler. Acting Mayor George Christopher raised his voice: "I don't give a damn about Flagstad. But I don't want the opera to die. I'd sing her roles myself first. Our culture is at stake." He calle'd on the War Memorial board to relent. The American Legion's national headquarters...
...Turkey, where close trading is a centuries-old art imbibed with mother's milk, the No. 1 mule trader is squat, swarthy Mahmout Safyurtlu. Last year, when Mahmout heard that EGA would pay for several thousand mules for Greece, he perked up his ears. Mahmout scurried to Athens, where he learned that the mules must be small, strong, good at climbing hills, not less than three years old, not more than nine, and 80% of them younger than seven...