Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emergency without the preparation to meet it.' " Ike wondered aloud if "this is getting to be a long speech." It was, but it was one of his most effective, and his conclusion impressed his audience: if only Americans understand, "then the sacrifice of money is not going to sound in their ears like the sacrifice of our sons on the battlefield. That is what we are trying to prevent . . . Let's not throw away the engines of this ship of state...
...singer, Sands mixes hoot and hush, moo and moon eyes. He is a sort of cleaned-up Presley. He enunciates better and grinds less, is less vulgar in sound and manner, also less able to turn on the excitement that Presley can frequently generate. But Tommy is doing fine without wriggling up to Elvis' loftier heights. In the three months since the Kraft show, Sands has taken the bathos treatment on This Is Your Life, sung on five network shows, screen-tested for a role in Marjorie Morningstar. He gets about 2,000 fan letters a day, has pulled...
Shaw will be the only physically sound man on the starting attack lineup; both Dub Mallonee and Dick Pille are still limping from previous injuries. Captain Mac Hyde, Jim Gale, and Tim Draper will open at midfield, with Fallon, Jim Herscot, and John Baldwin at defense...
Meanwhile, back at the agency that produced the ad. Adman Howard Becker modestly disclaimed any special talent for creating the likeness of a radio pundit. Said he: "It's simple, really. If you speak in a portentous voice, write copy in short, terse style, make everything sound important, you sound like Murrow-no matter...
...SOUND OF A DISTANT HORN, by Sven Stolpe (301 pp.; Sheed & Ward; $3.95), is within echoing distance of the works of François Mauriac and Graham Greene, in which anguished would-believers are pursued by both hell and heaven. Swedish Novelist Sven-Stolpe, 51, a Roman Catholic convert, tells of Edvard Kansdorf, an expatriate middle-aged Swede dying of cancer in Paris. He is a relapsed convert to Catholicism who tries to drown his consciousness as well as his conscience in cognac. The nausea rather than the pain of living makes him almost yearn for death. Around him revolve...