Word: whisperer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poems in the Throat. Garbed from head to toe in black ("I am probably the most covered-up singer in the business"), with her straight black hair hanging to her waist, she chanted the changes on blighted love, nostalgia and despair in a husky contralto which ranged from a whisper to a raucous shout. Such personages as François Mauriac and Françoise Sagan dashed off songs for her. Sartre wrote that "in her throat she has millions of poems not yet written." When she took to the stage (in Anastasia) in a straight dramatic role, Le Monde...
...front of City Hall. A Communist official tried to speak to them from the top of a public-address truck. A group of youths scrambled up onto the truck and began manhandling the Communist; most of the workers did not mix in; neither did the onlooking cops. Then a whisper went through the crowd: the workers' delegation was back in town and had been arrested...
Even the sound of the skates gliding along told the judges the difference between a missed "change" or a smartly executed maneuver. So the five judges listened to the whisper of steel on ice, watched Tenley's flashing feet, her graceful arms and shoulders as she kept her delicate balance. And after each figure the judges skated out to inspect the size of the circles cut by Tenley's skates, the accuracy of her retracings, the telltale scrapings that signified "flats...
Three hours later, while furious Frenchmen circled his refuge in the Palais d'Eté, honking their horns, Mollet admitted shakily to newsmen: "I saw in their faces the look of total miscomprehension and hatred." His hands trembled, and his voice was little more than a whisper. His first retreat was to accept the resignation of 79-year-old General Georges Catroux, whom he had appointed Minister for Algeria (TIME, Feb. 13). Catroux' appointment had been a political blunder in the first place. To Algerian French, Catroux was "the liquidator'' of France's presence...
Steel production set a record (of 2,472,000 tons) for the third successive week. Department-store sales climbed 8% above the same 1955 week. Manufacturers' durable-goods inventories were still climbing, said the Commerce Department. In December they reached $26.3 billion, a whisper away from the $26.6 billion reached in 1953 just before the cut in buying and inventory recession. But this time there was a vital difference in the nature of the U.S. economy. Sales are now a far bigger proportion of inventories. Said Manhattan's Bankers Trust Vice President Roy Reierson: "Generally, there...