Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Justice Department officials. Among other curiosities, the members of the Maris family had all been issued Social Security cards with consecutive numbers. Officials at Maris' supposed alma maters, John Bartram High School (Justice officials spelled it Bertram) in Philadelphia and Baldwin Wallace College in Ohio, had never heard of him. His Army service number had never been officially issued. There was no record of his birth certificate, and his old Philadelphia home address turned out to be a vacant lot in an all-black neighborhood. When court proceedings and IRS collection procedures blew his cover in 1973, Tycoon Maris...
...week when she won first prize at an amateur night. She went on to sing what she later called "ungodly raw" songs in Southern black nightclubs. A decade later she started performing for white folks, and was already known as "Queen of the Blues" when Irving Berlin heard her at Harlem's Cotton Club and cast her in As Thousands Cheer. A tremendous hit, she went on to the dramatic roles she preferred, including that of Berenice Sadie Brown, the compassionate and eloquent cook in both stage and screen versions of The Member of the Wedding...
...elsewhere are delighted to have a new source of supply. On a loftier plane, Fraser said, "The advent of Australia as a major supplier of uranium will make certain that Australia's voice on this most vital problem of international affairs -nuclear weapons proliferation-will be heard...
...that record in the winter of 1955. He had wandered into Sun Records with his guitar, two summers before, plunked down $4 to sing a couple of tunes to his mother, Gladys, and left carrying a 10-in. acetate for her birthday present. Sun Secretary Marion Keisker heard a mean, lowdown sweetness in the baritone voice, made a tape of the session and played it back later for her boss, Sam Phillips. He had been looking for a "black sound inside a white boy" to make Sun Records a national mark way beyond Memphis...
...heard the news...