Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Export-Import Bank. As the situation ran toward disaster, Grady lumbered persistently between the stiff-necked British and the sagging iron cot of Iran's Premier Mossadeq. "He loves me," said Grady. To all who would listen, he complained that Washington had let him down. The Harriman mission was the final affront which Harriman compounded by refusing to let him see cables from Washington on the ground that they were "too secret." ¶ Loy Henderson, 59, Ambassador to India since 1948, to replace Grady in Iran. One of State's ablest career diplomats, Henderson was the best...
...just published a book (I Am a Composer) in Paris. Excerpts: ¶ "I sincerely believe that a few years from now, music, as we know it, will have ceased to exist. . . Even today we can see what is happening. People no longer listen to 'music,' they go to watch the performance of a famous conductor or pianist." ¶ "The modern composer is a man who turns out a product that nobody wants. I would like to compare him to the manufacturer of old-fashioned hats, shoes and corsets, but with one little difference. The public doesn...
With People Will Talk, Producer Darryl Zanuck has broken a lot of Hollywood's old rules, and borrowed a few new ones from two of theater's greats. He tests Bernard Shaw's theory that audiences will listen to anything so long as it is amusingly said, and adapts from Chekhov the technique of having an actor, when necessary, move down to the footlights and explain to the audience what kind of man he is. One neat touch: the dedication "to that one who has inspired man's unending battle against Death, and without whom that...
...live without inhabiting Myself-in such a wise that I Am dying that I do not die. This life I live in vital strength Is loss of life unless I win You: And thus to die I shall continue Until in You I live at length. Listen (my God!) my life is in You. This life I do not want, for I Am dying that...
...Clear a Name. Back in Melrose Highlands, Mass., comely, 34-year-old Ruth Alice Crawshaw, a former Navy nurse, was both grief-stricken and indignant when she got the report. To everyone who would listen, she told what a devoted husband and father Crawshaw had been. She pointed out that her husband suffered from stomach ulcers and had frequent attacks of violent nausea. Her theory was that he had fallen overboard while standing at the ship's railing during one of these seizures. Because the Navy had ruled that Crawshaw died from his own misconduct, his widow...