Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ciampa stated last night that he was planning two types of programs for Club members: an active and a passive one. The former will entail taking active part in various political campaigns in this area. Those in the passive program will sit and listen to guest speakers, he said...
...hard, but why shouldn't I do it? Got no husband, got no family. Just a widow with a small income, eatin' money." Turning from stern fiscal realities to light philosophy, Perle reminisced about her old job as U.S. Minister to Luxembourg: "I learned to stop and listen. Told that to a reporter one day, and I got a letter from a woman who said, 'Thank God, you've learned to keep your big mouth shut...
...lend a hand, but Goodman is too busy sorting his jewelry, Shaw is still having trouble keeping track of his girls, and me, well, I have the problem of trying to keep up with Uncle Whiskers on my tax bill. Sure, we've lost ground, but when you listen to guys like Tony Scott, Buddy De Franco and Jimmy Giuffre, you suddenly discover there's still something new in music expressed by the clarinet...
...search for new talent they can call their own. Result: the biggest crop of new names in years. So far, none of their finds is likely to jeopardize the record sales of such old reliables as Jo Stafford and Dinah Shore, but some are well worth a listen. Bethlehem puts its money on Helen Carr (Why Do I Love You) and Terry Morel (Songs of a Woman in Love); EmArcy displays the modern phrasings of Helen Merrill; Storyville has uncovered a sweet-husky voice on Introducing Milli Vernon; Liberty's Lonely Girl exploits its success with Julie London...
Billie Holiday was a "hip kitty," so she says, practically from the time she was born, 41 years ago, in a Baltimore slum. At six she was running errands for the girls in a local brothel so she could listen to their parlor phonograph. At 13 she had a police record already behind her. In New York she began her singing career. But that did not end her wayward life...