Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...empty. That's the only way I'd know he had left the room. Then a little while later, when we were getting near a decision, I would hear a quiet voice speak up-straight to the point. Everyone in the room would stop talking and listen. That's the way I'd find out Brownell was back in the room...
Currently, Brownell wants to concentrate on the Department of Justice. He is backing out of the patronage picture, tells all who will listen that he is no longer Ike's job dispenser...
...might just sit in the studio. We assured him that this would be possible . . . Thereafter, for the next couple of weeks, he would wander in whenever he pleased (sometimes as early as 6 a.m. after eating breakfast at one of the all-night restaurants in the Square), and listen for hours at a time. Once, when he fell asleep, we put up a sign: "Don't disturb. Mr. Wilder is sleeping to Mozart...
...reject the theory that housewives are stupid because they listen to daytime shows," says Garry Moore. He is defending not only housewives but himself, for his Garry Moore Show (weekdays, 1:30 p.m., CBS-TV) comes smack in the middle of the day. It is also, he insists, "non-typical." Unlike such weepy radio competitors as Young Dr. Malone and The Guiding Light, Moore tries to run his program on the lines of a comic strip: "No one show of mine fractures you all by itself. But, in continuity, they go over&151;just like Li'l Abner...
...ages of six months and seven years. Most had been well washed. "But some were so grimy that we couldn't tell the color of the face," Maritza complained, "and others had had their faces washed but their arms were thick with dirt. Their parents had to listen to a little lecture on cleanliness...