Word: earful
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Waxy little John Maragon, once a brassy man about Washington with a White House pass and the ear of Major General Harry Vaughan, found last week that he had no influence with a federal jury. Even his attorney's plea that Maragon was only "a peanut vendor among princes" was no help. The jury found that he had lied to a Senate subcommittee in last summer's investigation of Washington five-percenters, found him guilty on two counts of perjury...
...most often been likened to Puccini. Bar for bar, he bears scant resemblance, but Menotti's tender and romantic passages in particular come to the ear with something of Puccini's melodramatic appeal. Actually, Menotti says that Mussorgsky has been more his model; he has obviously learned from both Debussy and Prokofiev, too. He seldom strays far from traditional tonality, although he often uses sharp or strong dissonance for effect...
...roll last fall when Jimmy Dorsey played hooky from his big dance band long enough to record Johnson Rag and a Dixieland version of Charley My Boy with an easygoing eight-piece group called the Original "Dorseyland" Jazz Band. The relaxed, free-wheeling music caught the public's ear, and the Dorseylanders quickly followed with an album including such old standards as Jazz Me Blues, South Rampart Street Parade, and High Society. The album soon hit Variety's list of the top-five bestsellers, has stayed there for six weeks...
...next time your Radcliffe date murmurs in your ear that a dinner at Locke-Ober's would be nice, ignore her. A recent survey discloses that the average freshman gains from 10 to 15 pounds during her first term, largely on her fare in the Annex dorms...
There he took his time learning to paint, sopping up the brilliant colors of the French countryside, studying the revolutionary techniques of les fauves (the wild beasts), including Matisse, Braque and Dufy, who were then setting France on its ear...