Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...derby-to the man or men who have "contributed a fine mess to Detroit." (Current holders: the local weathermen.) The Minneapolis tent shelters 150 fans, including Harry Heltzer, president of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.; members wear derbies to the meetings and hoot and holler in the best silent-film tradition. Johnny Carson prizes L. & H. for "their rapport, their genuine liking for each other." Mime Marcel Marceau calls Laurel the "maitre of all mimes in the world"; Author J. D. Salinger, who runs off old two-reelers for his children, refers to the pair as "two heaven-sent...
...write or edit messages so that they will carry a certain meaning; he tries to report and sometimes stage-manage situations so that the public will see his client in a certain light. He must be able to handle words and-equally-he must know when to keep silent. Naturally, his art is fallible, and it can be used for improper ends. But it is needed in a society where countless institutions and groups want to talk to one another and to the public. In autocratic societies, the state has a monopoly on public relations. Even in many democracies...
...small hours, the grand jury chambers of New York City's Queens County courthouse swarmed with police officers and district attorney's men. Then, when search warrants had been signed, teams of detectives organized, and watches synchronized, 150 cops fanned out in 15 different directions, heading for silent houses in Queens and other parts of New York City and Long Island. Minutes after sunrise, the squads simultaneously rapped on 15 doors and arrested a surprisingly respectable group of 16 Negro citizens. Among them were Assistant Junior High School Principal Herman Ferguson, 47, Brooklyn Schoolteacher Ursula West...
...country and western (Johnny Rivers). Ravi Shankar, whose classical sitar playing has been so enthusiastically applauded and imitated in the U.S. jazz and pop world that he has opened a school for Indian music in Los Angeles, had an entire concert to himself. A capacity audience sat breathlessly silent during his hypnotic droning and twanging of ancient ragas, then leaped to its feet at the end to give him one of the biggest ovations of the festival...
Died. Reginald Denny, 75, English-born screen and stage actor, a veteran of more than 200 films, whose boyish good looks won him all-American parts in Hollywood's silent days, but whose unmistakably British diction led to a talkie career of English character and comedy roles, including Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House and a memorable Broadway takeover as Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady; of a stroke; in Middlesex...