Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Planning to carry his message to whomever will listen, Ponte, who speaks several languages, will talk on street corners and before small organizations. He is one of 35 non-partisan candidates vying for the nine seats on the City Council...
...pretty hot out there." Hughes told him he didn't know how hot he was, but would check and call him back. Johnson volunteered to call back himself in an hour. An FBI agent hustled to the Mirror office, set up a monitoring phone to listen in on the call when Johnson phoned back. In Baltimore, every outgoing call to Los Angeles was monitored, so that FBI agents could swiftly trace the call and nab Johnson. In an hour, he called back...
...American culture has been under constant attack for years. To every complaint, the soapmakers have a crisply pragmatic answer: they are written as they are because that is what their audience wants. When asked what he thinks of his soap operas, P. & G.'s President McElroy, no steady listener himself, is apt to get up on one of his own soapboxes: "The problem of improving the literary tastes of the people is the problem of the schools. The people who listen to our programs aren't intellectuals - they're ordinary people, good people, who win wars...
...could work as a truck driver. Hughes got him the license, from then on frequently got calls from Johnson. "He was a mixed-up guy," says Hughes, "who has been in crime ever since he was a kid. He likes to talk and I like to sit back and listen." Two months ago, Johnson stopped calling after police started looking for him as a suspect in the strangulation murder in a Los Angeles suburb of one Richard Fagner, who had befriended Johnson...
...pretty hot out there." Hughes told him he didn't know how hot he was, but would check and call him back. Johnson volunteered to call back himself in an hour. An FBI agent hustled to the Mirror office, set up a monitoring phone to listen in on the call when Johnson phoned back. In Baltimore, every outgoing call to Los Angeles was monitored, so that FBI agents could swiftly trace the call and nab Johnson. In an hour, he called back...