Word: hearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Earl Browder, No. 1 U. S. Communist, talked at Yale last year, only 268 undergraduates turned out to hear him. But last week Comrade Browder had what pressagents know as "a buildup." Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth had barred him. New Haven American Legionnaires had bellowed at tolerant Yale President Charles Seymour for not barring him. All this set the stage for more fun than Yale men had had since old George Gundelfinger issued his first tract (in 1923) on "Why the Bulldog Is Losing His Grip...
...Browder warmed up to his assault on capitalism, his audience listened politely, interrupted with only an occasional "Hear! Hear!" or "Prove it!" When Comrade Browder declared that the Soviet Union was determined to maintain peace, the audience laughed loudly. But Mr. Browder got his biggest hand when he asserted that if the U. S. copied the Russian system it could by 1950 give every U. S. man, woman and child a bonus...
...James W. Fesler, who could hear the weekly broadcast much better in their own front parlor (in the studio the music sounds almost as if it were being played under a blanket), make special weekly train trips to Manhattan to see the Maestro conduct in the fiery flesh. Two Buffalo newlyweds recently made Studio 8-H their Niagara Falls. One Texan chartered a plane to get there. Refugees from Central Europe spend their first two cents on U. S. soil to stamp a letter to NBC asking for passes. Bootleg passes retail at $25 a pair. Last week, when Toscanini...
...dock in the roughest weather. Clear of approach obstructions to jangle the nerves of pilots, the field also has many a piece of expensive equipment to make life easier. Examples: a stop-go traffic light system for taxiing planes; a control tower fitted with 16 radio receivers to hear calls on any airline frequency...
...believe the people of this community will be deterred by Mike Sullivan from reading what they want to read, hearing what they want to hear, seeing what they want to see. If the Holyoke Bookshop were to close, a whole range of social and economic thought would no longer be readily available in Cambridge. At a time of crisis when so many ideas are being reassessed, we feel that thin would be a serious intellectual loss. Bebe Stearns, for the Holyoke Bookshop...