Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon after Herter got back to the U.S., he had to listen to some fervent urging himself: a group of top Massachusetts Republicans insisted that it was his party duty to run for Governor against brass-lunged Democrat Paul Dever. Herter protested angrily: he liked his job and his prospects on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, did not much care to give it up for a long-shot chance at an office that he did not really want. But in the end he agreed to run. Boston bookmakers gave odds as long as 10 to 3 against...
With his innate sense of what is fitting, Herter kept himself in the background during his first few months at State, listened much and talked little. After the often grating brusqueness of Herbert Hoover Jr., his predecessor as Under Secretary, Herter's unflagging courtesy and willingness to listen boosted departmental morale. But his occasional exasperated "goddams" packed a wallop. Gradually, State Department hands came to see that behind Herter's gentleness was a strong and tenacious mind. "I learned one thing," reported an Assistant Secretary after emerging from Herter's office. "You've got to know...
...Friend is well worth seeing, and the Friday and Saturday sell-outs leave tonight as a last chance. Or almost as good, one of these balmy evenings stroll by the House, listen to the music, and watch them change sets through the Common room windows...
...bringing my boys up," brooded Bing. "I think I failed them by giving them too much work and discipline, too much money, and too little time and attention. I never had much success talking with them. The thing is, it burns me up when they won't listen to me." To the four Crosby cutups (Gary, 25, Twins Philip and Dennis, 24, Lindsay, 21), Dad's mournful tune came as a stunning surprise. Said Cinemactor Lindsay: "I don't know why he made the statement. No one meant to do any wrong...
...Sinatra, Noel Coward, Fred Astaire, W. C. Fields all marched on the show with such regulars as Dorothy Collins and Snooky Lanson. Then came rock 'n' roll. The sort of stuff that Elvis sings began to lead the Parade, and American Tobacco apparently decided that kids who listen to that brand of song are hardly sophisticated enough to smoke. After long and faithful service to the pop-music fan, Your Hit Parade will peter out this month...