Word: listener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johnson to the television men, who were still gasping after lugging their heavy gear up the stairs. They protested that one of their number had not yet arrived. "Well," snapped Johnson, "you take it and give it to him." Told that could not be done, Johnson was upset. "Now listen," he growled, "I told you to be ready." He had, in fact, given eight minutes' notice-which was quite a lot for a man whose breakneck energies had already turned the first week of the 85th Congress, Second Session, into a one-man show...
Wrote Sir Hugh: "This is the culmination of a whispering campaign put about, I am sure, by my brothers. They say to any newspaperman who will listen that I am a sort of wild half-wit brought up on the Cornish moors . . . They suggest that I was shuffled off overseas because I was clearly unfit to follow their pursuits of the law and politics." Actually, insisted Sir Hugh, he had won as many scholastic honors as an undergraduate at Cambridge as his brothers had when they were up at Oxford. "As to the gypsies," wrote the Cyprus governor, "well...
...Davis recently sketched some music for a French movie entitled Lift to the Gallows ("about a man who has committed the perfect crime-until he got stuck in an elevator"). In Europe he is perhaps the most widely imitated modern U.S. jazzman. No matter how closely young musicians may listen to him, Davis hates to take a backward look at his work. "You always see how you would have done it different," he says. "If you play good for eight bars, it's enough-for yourself...
...trying to create a pseudo-European coffee house atmosphere," co-owner Paula Kelley explained. "This is an American coffee house. Actually, our place is more than a coffee house; it is a place where one can relax, meet friends, and listen to progressive jazz. We are not in business just to sell coffee...
...cared more deeply about the Orrington elementary school than Swedish-born Hjalmar Andersson. For 23 years as janitor, he kept the building clean and in good repair: no matter how much there was to do, he always had time to joke or chat with the pupils and listen to their troubles. But for all his good humor, Janitor Andersson is a stubborn man. Last week he was barred from the school he loves because of a rather odd and lonely crusade...