Word: earful
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Into one hour last week, CBS tried to pack all the news of the previous seven days. Listeners to Hear It Now (Fri. 9 p.m.) heard "drama for the ear" that originated in the trampled snow of North Korea, the drapery-hung walls of Lake Success and on the quarter-deck of the battleship Missouri...
Like his friend and fellow fake-hunter, Magician Harry Houdini, Rinn spent a long time looking for evidence of psychic power he could believe in. As a youngster, he was bowled over when a medium ordered him to place the spout of a kettle to his ear and thus receive the words of a "spirit voice." Only after he himself became a magician did Rinn realize that he had been duped (out of $5) by a double-bottomed kettle equipped like a telephone receiver and in contact with a "spirit" hidden behind a panel...
Beyond this, Pearson had no specific proposals. He thought the Western tune could be played by ear around the conference table. But broadly Canada favored a settlement in which Mao would withdraw from Korea in return for Western concessions-presumably the admission of the Chinese Communists to the United Nations and abandonment of Formosa and Chiang Kaishek...
Indianapolis' Dr. Philip Durham Seitz suggested that many a chronic scratcher could be cured by kindness and an attentive ear. To his associates, said Seitz, the scratcher often appears as a "cold fish," whereas in reality he is deeply sensitive to slights. When hurt, his only recourse to relieve his anger and gratify his longing for love is by applying the fingernails...
Creator of Pogo is tall, moonfaced Walter Kelly, 37, who has a quick ear for fantastic word twists and a gentle eye for the gentler foibles of mankind. Kelly, who spent five years as a cartoon animator for Walt Disney, began drawing Pogo in a daily strip in 1948, while he was art director of the New York Star. After the Star folded, the Post-Hall Syndicate rescued Pogo and started him on his rapid climb...