Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill is, of course, directed at the Communist Party. The members of the legislature on the Constitutional Law Committee heard an ex-Dies Committee investigator, J. B. Matthews, testify last week that the best way "to beat the Reds" is to drive them underground. Unfortunately, the legislators who agreed with Matthews haven't stopped with that fallacy alone; from their questioning of witnesses who opposed the bill, they seemed to think that the term "subversive" ought to have a much wider application. "Subversive," as interpreted by some of these public servants, might easily include non-Communists who are suspiciously unorthodox...
...acting conductor of the Glee Club several years ago and conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, Fine has been encouraging the performance of rarely heard contemporary and older music, a responsibility he feels strongly. Under his guidance, the Music Club has been revived since the war for the best years in its history...
President Robert E. Miller '48 of the Dramatic Club, yesterday received a $5000 policy from Lloyds of London insuring Monty Woolley's heard against fire, theft, hall, and tornado...
Whispered or asked in a clear unabashed voice, no question is heard more often in a modern art gallery. The answers-whether supplied by highbrow critics, crusty crusaders, or well-meaning friends of the artist-are rarely very conclusive. This week, one Manhattan gallery tried the sensible experiment of letting the artists speak for themselves. It put on a group show of 23 U.S. painters (including some of the best) and invited each of them to contribute 75 words of explanation for the exhibition catalogue...
Casino audiences, with Denmark's Queen Alexandrine, Britain's Lord Mountbatten and France's Maurice Chevalier, among others, floating in & out, had first heard a week of French music, a week of Italian music, and an English week. For the semaine americaine, slim, nervous Conductor Jascha Horenstein was having his troubles...