Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against "capitalist exploiters," but her words fell on a lethargic gathering of scarcely 30 people, even though she was speaking in the grimy 18th arrondissement, the reddest of the Red districts of Paris. In tiny Ecurie (pop. 362), only 15 men and a runny-nosed boy turned out to hear Socialist Guy Mollet review his premiership, blame "the Americans" for preventing the Anglo-French conquest of Suez. Were any problems bothering his listeners? he asked. "Classrooms for our children," responded...
Marius Constant is a fast-rising 33-year-old Parisian composer with a peculiar aural defect: he can never listen to a single instrument without mentally hearing all the instruments of the orchestra. This gets so bad, he complains, that "even when I play the piano all by myself, I hear strings and trombones, trumpets and percussion.'' Not long ago Composer Constant also found himself hearing tom-toms, marimbas, vibraphone and celesta. He committed these exotic cerebral sounds to paper, and last week a Parisian audience jammed into the Theatre des Champs-Elysées to hear...
...thousand saloonkeepers lifted grateful faces in Atlantic City last week to hear a good word from a minister. The Rev. John Fuller Mangrum, 36, of St. Edward's Episcopal Church in Mount Dora, Fla., told the ninth annual convention of the National Licensed Beverage Association that they should not tolerate being treated as "second-class human beings" by churches in the grip of "puritanism...
Produced by Graham's Private Enterprise, Inc. and sponsored by Ford Motor Co., the show will hear from three contestants a week for three weeks, pick three of them for a fourth program where the winner will get backing up to $25,000. As with small businessmen it has backed abroad, Graham's P.E.I, will split profits fifty-fifty with the winners until they are ready to buy out its share. Graham has already received nearly 300 applications touting everything from a futuristic garage to a fancy vanity tray, is having applicants screened by Wichita's Fourth...
...Want to Live! (Figaro; United Artists). "When you hear the pellets drop," says the kindly guard to the beautiful doll as he buckles her into the cyanide chamber, "take a deep breath and count ten. It's easier that way." The beautiful doll only flings him a sardonic question: "How do you know?" Barbara Graham (Susan Hay ward), according to this skillful screen version of the life and death of one of California's most celebrated criminals (TIME. June 13, 1955), is a woman who likes to find things out for herself. At 25, she has found...