Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dirt in the Blue Grass. From Daytona Beach one gallant telegraphed: "Do nothing till you hear from me. Might go as high as 12 or 13Gs." Then a man from Lexington, Ky. burned up the long distance wires, begging Dorothy to hold off until he could get up to Valley Stream. He telegraphed a $100 down payment. Dorothy described him as a horse breeder named Arthur Howard, said he was a boyish 42 and almost six feet tall. "He's got oodles of do-re-mi,'' she added softly...
Said a SCAP official last week to TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans: "It's pure speculation, but it's my guess that when MacArthur announces his departure you can look for an announcement that Hirohito has stepped out-or when you hear that Akihito has become Emperor you'll hear of MacArthur's leaving." Other Tokyo observers speculated that an abdication might be timed to coincide with "the end of the occupation...
...salute, as thousands (APRA's estimate: 200,000; opposition estimate: 15,000) passed in review. While fireworks lighted the sky, the people chanted "Elections, yes! Tyranny, no!" (The day before, Bustamante had postponed congressional by-elections for a third time.) Then they jammed the Avenida Alfonso Ugarte to hear their leader...
Daughter of Metropolitan Opera Manager Edward Johnson, Fiorenza was born in Florence, educated in Europe and the U.S. She speaks French and Italian fluently, finds both an asset in her barnstorming. "Did you know," she asked, "that there are 5,000 Italians in the Soo? They love to hear their language spoken...
London audiences have packed Albert Hall nine times this season to hear Pianist Eileen Joyce. One thing they like about her is her showmanship. Tall, green-eyed Pianist Joyce makes the most of her looks by frequent changes of dress and hairdo between numbers ("Sequins for Debussy," she once explained deadpan to a reporter, "red and gold for Schumann; hair up for Beethoven, down for Grieg...