Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radio is a particularly effective weapon, she asserted, since it can reach the numerous Southerners who cannot read, and who either cannot afford a television set or live beyond television broadcasting ranges...
...roughly the feeling experienced by the valedictorian of Wood-row Wilson H. S. when he discovers all the other valedictorians in his college freshman class. Golf-playing vice presidents, Army majors, men who never read anything weightier than Time suddenly find themselves thrown together to study, discuss, and (as one troubled AMP expressed it) "read, read, read...
...long ruled the Ivory Coast as a personal fief, and when he ordered it to vote yes in the De Gaulle referendum, 99% of the voters obligingly did so. As he prepared last week to fly home, Houphouet-Boigny sent a message ahead of him that was read to a public meeting...
...years, Producer Gurian has been looking for what might be called a clean bomb-a low-radiation play that he could take on the road before Manhattan critics could blast it. Last week after having read more than 400 scripts, Actress Harris opened to warm reviews in Wilmington, Dela. in her husband's production of The Warm Peninsula, an impish tale of a good little Milwaukee girl's search for glamour in Miami. Before even getting near Broadway, Peninsula will live out of its trunks for a full year, is booked to play in 19 U.S. cities...
Addicts of Churchilliana will read this valet's valedictory for bits of backstage gossip like this, yet the book is more than just another footnote to the Churchill legend. It stands in its own right as a comedy of character. On foreign travel Norman hardly ever went to hear the guv'nor's speeches-he heard enough of his master's voice as it was. Yet Churchill always gravely consulted the young man after a speech: "I thought it went rather well, didn't you?" Invariably, Norman would answer, "Yes sir, very well indeed." Norman...