Word: listener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quote Mr. Hoffa, concerning the recent Detroit newspaper strike, as follows: "In Detroit's recent newspaper strike, at 3 a.m. in the morning three editors came to see me, and we worked things out. I talked and they listened. Can you imagine how it feels to have men like that listen to reason?" This is categorically untrue. Not one Detroit newspaper editor, or managing editor, or city editor met with Mr. Hoffa the night the strike ended, or at any time during the strike. Labor reporters from all three Detroit newspapers covered all meetings and talked with Hoffa...
...supermarkets, logged 6,000 miles on the converted milk truck. Along with this "Operation Doorbell" went "Operation Coffee Cup." By the hundreds, New Jersey women are sitting down to sip coffee from Forbes-decorated cups, dab at their lips with paper napkins imprinted with a Forbes family cooky recipe, listen to a tape-recorded message from the candidate...
During the years of retirement, Sibelius never moved far from his house, wrapped himself in cigar smoke and in music (he liked to listen to concerts from all over the world on a powerful short-wave set). Said he wistfully of jazz: "If I were only younger!" Of cowboy ballads: "They never get grey hair, do they?" He was said to have composed steadily, but nobody was able to discover just what the music was like. From 1932 on, when the late Serge Koussevitzky announced that he hoped to premiere Sibelius' Eighth Symphony with the Boston Symphony, audiences looked...
...carved by a Harvard man. He was in the Philippines when he made it. I think the University sent him to France about ten years ago. Look at this little table. I've turned down over a hundred dollars for it." After pointing out some glasses, Goldman advised '"Listen to the ring. That's the sign of good crystal. He tapped the rim of a glass and nodded approval of the sound...
...cover of the booklet that they will never, never replace it is "lost, stolen, or mislaid." While both Frank O. Lunden and Thomas D. Bolles concede that they would like to replace lost books, they say they don't know how. They ask advice and seem predisposed to listen to the Undergraduate Athletic Council, which meets for the first time next Monday...