Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flight of the intercontinental Atlas, even though only over a 500-mile test range, that was the roar heard 'round the world. Instantly the word was flashed to President Eisenhower at the NATO conference. The message electrified the Senate caucus room where Texas' Lyndon Johnson and his Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee were conducting missile hearings. "That," said Johnson, "is mighty good news...
...temporal lobe during an operation on a 26-year-old secretary, she suddenly remarked: "I hear music." Minutes later, without her knowledge, the electrode was reapplied to the same spot. "I hear music again," she said. She hummed the tune in time with the orchestra that she heard. Later she wrote: "It is not one of my favorite songs, so I don't know why I heard that one. I finally got hold of a copy and played it on the piano...
Other patients also had musical recollections. One heard a piano and saw the man playing it. A boy reported seeing men seated in chairs and hearing them sing. These were no hallucinations, but always the reproductions of actual experiences. Aside from music, patients have recalled a wide variety of incidents, usually trivial, often from childhood, and connected with the family or neighbors...
...British museums had their climax in last week's display at London's Tate Gallery. Washington's National Gallery of Art this fall hung a vast Blake exhibition drawn from both England and America. ¶Articles, lectures and broadcasts on Blake are being read and heard in many tongues, including Hindi and Japanese. A color film of his graphic works is in production in England. A memorial bust of Blake, by Sir Jacob Epstein, was placed this year in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey...
Banker William Rose, who shared others' wealth last year in Ellenville, N.Y., reaped his reward last week. Having admitted gift-loans of $1,400,000 that collapsed his Home National Bank (TiME, Dec. 24, 1956), Rose, 51, heard a New York federal judge sentence him to five years in jail for misapplication of bank funds. President Joseph Di Candia of the nearby Anjopa Paper Co., who invested part of $958,000 in loans from Rose in wine, women and song, was sentenced to three years for his part in the deal. Mrs. Celia Hoffman and Mrs. Anna Schandler...