Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn welcomed television with some rolling prose for the New York Times Magazine: "The future of motion pictures, conditioned as it will be by the competition of television, is going to have no room for the deadwood of the present or the faded glories of the past." And a good thing, too, thought Goldwyn: "It will take brains instead of just money to make pictures...
...simple story told by Mrs. Heiner in her autobiography, Hearing Is Believing (World Publishing Co.; $2), which this week goes into its second printing. Now president of Cleveland's famed Hearing and Speech Center and a trustee of the American Hearing Society, Mrs. Heiner for the past 13 years has campaigned for a better understanding of the problems faced by the five million-odd deaf people in the U.S. She has promoted schools and clinics for the training of deaf children, advocated better job placement, arranged for special hearing-aid wiring in theaters, concert halls and churches...
...Orleans' boisterous Mardi Gras. For the first time in its 33-year history, the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club (founded primarily to assure dues-paying members a decent burial) had gone out of town for its carnival king. From its cross-section membership in the past had come Mardi Gras kings who were porters, shopkeepers and undertakers, but Trumpeter Armstrong was big-time royalty, even a world figure. Many jazz experts, who can be as snooty and esoteric as existentialists or the followers of a Bach cult, solemnly hail him as the greatest musical genius...
Louis gives the back of his hand to the latest variety of jazz, bebop (or bop). The boppers, who know the way he feels, tend to speak of him in the past tense. "Nowadays," says Negro Bop Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, "we try to work out different rhythms and things that they didn't think about when Louis Armstrong blew. In his day all he did was play strictly from the soul-just strictly from his heart. You got to go forward and progress. We study...
...Past, he also left a voluminous correspondence. Now, after more than a quarter of a century, Mina Curtiss' selection of his letters (which the onetime Smith College associate professor has translated herself) makes most of them available in English for the first time...