Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your March 25 article on heart surgery was the most heart-warming story I could ever hope to read. My five-year-old son must undergo heart surgery in a few years. Your article has given me so much more courage...
Either your so-called literary critic hasn't read the Overstreet books or is incapable of understanding them. The Overstreets' writings are based on sound findings in psychology and psychiatry. They aren't filled with quasi-religious...
...Yarborough campaign headquarters in Austin, his supporters whooped it up as the good news came in, reached their peak when they read a congratulatory telegram from Songstresses Patience and Prudence, whose Texan uncles helped Senator-elect Yarborough's campaign. They talked of sending off a wire to conservative Democrat Daniel, who is no Yarborough fan, simply quoting that line from the P. and P. hit record: "So long my honey, goodbye my dear, gonna get along without...
...bellwether, a broker of notions and ideas." Though Marx's dispatches were laden with doom-fraught prophecies of social breakdown, Greeley's young managing editor, Charles A. Dana (later famed as owner-editor of the old New York Sun), happily assured his London correspondent: "They are read with satisfaction by a considerable number of persons and are widely reproduced...
Last week the U.S. got back what it gave when a cocky, 9½-stone (133 Ibs.), skiffling Scotsman named Lonnie Donegan arrived with a four-man combo to play side music for basketball's famed Harlem Globetrotters, currently touring the U.S. Donegan, who cannot read music, hit the big time with a recording of Rock Island Line (on the London label in the U.S.), whose spoken introduction, beat and intonation copy almost exactly the style of a Negro ex-con and twelve string guitar player, the late Huddie ("Lead Belly") Ledbetter...