Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fortnight ago, 32 employees of the talks and public-affairs department resigned in a huff, charging that Preview Commentary, a sometimes waspish radio program, had been canceled because of pressure from John Diefenbaker's Tory government. The show restored, they went back, but not before a parliamentary committee heard these charges of high-level political pressure...
...Wall Street Journal and John Cowles of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. Whitney was politely turned down by several nominees, e.g., Executive Editor Lee Hills of John S. Knight's Detroit Free Press, and turned down several himself after close examination. A newcomer to newspapering, Whitney had never heard of Mexico's Bob White, but, as one Whitney aide explains, "nearly everyone we spoke to mentioned his name; so we got in touch with him." Asked for an opinion. Chicago's Marshall Field Jr.-for whose Sun-Times White had served as a part-time consultant...
...every hand, he heard radios blaring the hastily pressed record Ingemar O Ingemar, learned that even an Ingemar Cha-Cha (lyrics by Actress Signe Hasso) would soon be released...
...commercial that richly deserves to be part of Cavalcade was heard last week on Reno, Nev. radio stations. It sounded like one of the Viceroy ("Thinking Man's Filter'') playlets...
...matter how many times one has heard or played the Beethoven, the work never ceases to amaze one with its riches. Masterful in structure, significant in material, it is full of an almost endless succession of felicitous surprises--original shifts of harmony, changes in melodic contour, dynamics, and texture--which somehow always manage to retain their initial freshness...