Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Circus Minimus. Bill's clients, mainly young English, Australian and American couples, listen while he reminisces about how he introduced the late Sultan of Johore to the sweet mysteries of bourbon whisky, nod politely when Bill pontificates about modern pop music. Rock 'n' roll and all that jazz, he says, are "just a rehash of the old stuff, what used to be the Texas Tommy, the Bunny Hug and the Grizzly Bear...
...parks of Hamburg (a respiratory ailment kept him out of military service), decided that the traditionally dark, hearty brew of German journalism needed a bit of tang and a fleck of foam. He founded his empire in 1946 on the radio weekly Hör zu! (Listen), is now sole owner of three magazines (and one-third owner of two more), ranging from the gossipy Das Nvue Blatt to the Scientific Kristall, three Hamburg dailies, including the busty, bustling Bild-Zeitung (circ. 3,269,164-West Germany's largest) and the influential, intellectual Die Welt (circ...
...song came drifting out of a littered yard between two tenements. The young man passing in the street stopped for a moment to listen, then turned into the yard and unslung the tape recorder he always carries over one shoulder. The children's voices recorded on that muggy summer afternoon are preserved in an album called New York 19 (Folkways). The man who recorded them is 35-year-old Tony Schwartz, folklorist with a passion for the sounds of his time and place...
...maturing judgment in the type of individuals it selects to conduct and carry out governmental affairs. It will be to our credit to have more appointees with some of Mr. Herter's attributes such as "undeviating interest in the arts" and "unflagging courtesy and willingness to listen...
...contrast to the soft sell practiced by other West End producers, little (5 ft. 7 in., 135 lbs.) David Pelham busily proclaims his wares any place at any time to anyone who will listen. For the last nine months, Pelham has coaxed people into the theater to see his production of Auntie Mame (TIME, Sept. 22), cashed in on Warner's Auntie Mame movie by taking ads proclaiming "See It Live," stationed 20 men with sandwich boards bearing the same message in front of the theater where the film was playing. The movie moved out after two weeks...