Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 70 students crammed the small Adams Upper Common Room to hear Aiken and Philippe E. Le Corbeiller, lecturer in Applied Physics, discuss the Limits of Science." Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, was moderator...
When she was a sophomore at Boston's Simmons College 23 years ago, Marie Hays woke up one morning with a "woolly, thick" feeling in her head. Her roommate, closing the windows, shouted at her to get up. But Marie could not hear a word. Overnight, she had become deaf...
...deafness, Mrs. Heiner argues, lies for the most part with the individual. Mechanical devices have worked marvels; surgery may bring even greater advances. The catch is, Mrs. Heiner says, that too many deaf people, because of false vanity or personal eccentricity, refuse to take advantage of their opportunities for hearing what is going on about them. Says she: "If you really want to hear for sure, a way will be found. You may have to 'listen' in some unorthodox way, but some magnificent law of compensation makes acceptable substitutions...
...program is ("I can get something out of any of them"). Apparently, sweet, slurred stuff is just as acceptable to him as hot jazz. His favorite "listening band" for years has been Guy Lombardo's-and Louis doesn't care how many jazz pedants faint when they hear it; "Guy Lombardo advertises the 'sweetest music this side of heaven' and that's what he plays...
Hollywood, which had neurotically exaggerated its economic doldrums (TIME, Dec. 27), was startled last week to find its new-found optimism dramatized at last. For the first time in eleven years, M-G-M summoned 81 of its far-flung sales executives to hear the good news straight from the front office: the company, which released 24 pictures last year, was going to turn out an imposing total of 67 in the next 12 to 15 months...