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After having spent the first 20 years of my life saying, "Two oo's please," it is especially enjoyable now to point out to you that there is just one "o" in the Doctor Dolittle stories which you say, in the Feb. 18 issue, Sir Stafford Cripps is currently rereading...
Bennett's voice, however, is distinctly his own; it has a diffused, No.-OO-sand-paper sound, a quality which he feels has endeared him to his fans. Says he: "At first, I tried to eliminate things like that from my voice. But I've decided now to let it all alone. I've stopped eliminating altogether...
...backed up by Mrs. Covey's early morning instruction periods. The clinic's teaching methods (visual aids, constant repetition of sounds, the vibrations of a piano) have been copied by the children themselves. One little boy taught his sister, who has normal hearing, to make the sound "oo" by demonstrating it. Another clinic pupil, a girl, has her baby brother practicing "p" by blowing against a paper...
...cluttered den of Mario (The Great Caruso) Lanza's Beverly Hills home. An exuberant young man with the face of a choir boy and the frame of a prize bull let the vibrations pour over him until he could stand it no longer. His bright black eyes glistened. "Oo, Mario," he cooed lovingly, "you can sing like a sonofabitch ! " Both the voice on the record and the ecstatic compliment came from Mario Lanza himself, at 30 the first operatic tenor in history to become a full blown Hollywood star...
...untrained ear the change was virtually undetectable. The Green Hornet, The Lone Ranger ("Hi-yo, Silver -awa-a-a-a-a-y!")» Soo-oo-per-ma-a-an, The Shadow, and an ear-shattering collection of other thrillers kept on blasting through millions of loudspeakers; the announcer's thrilling command-"Ask mother nOw!"-echoed louder than ever. Fancier and more complicated box-top premiums (Planetary Maps, Atomic Bomb Rings, Magni-glow Writing Rings, Detective Badges, Compass-Magnifying Glasses, Explorer's Sun Watches) came flooding through the mails...