Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Witness Wilhelm Gellinick said he heard Ilse tell her husband: "My little pigeon, I think it is time for that old man [in a working party] to grovel a bit." The old man, said Gellinick, was made to roll up & down a hill several times, later died as a result. Gellinick testified that he worked in Buchenwald's pathology laboratory, saw human skin brought in and worked into lampshades for presentation to Ilse's husband...
...Washington, Rear Admiral Arthur C. Davis, Staff Director for the Joint Chiefs, was back on the job after recovering from an acute eye infection. "There I was-unable to use my eyes," he said. "I just listened to the radio all day. Soap operas! I never heard one before . . . What are we doing? We are raising a generation of morons. My God, I didn't realize what sad shape the United States of America...
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...
Bonanza. In Vienna, with $4,000 inherited from an uncle, Landon arranged for the recording of four rarely heard Haydn symphonies by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, led by young U.S. Conductor Jonathan Sternberg. Then he hit a bonanza; he persuaded a friend to invest $13,000 in the Haydn Society, assuring him it would "pyramid faster than Florida real estate." With his bonanza money, he hired a photographer and a musicologist, sent them up & down Austria, Germany and Hungary collecting and microfilming Haydn manuscripts. He also recorded the Nelson Mass, which sold 5,000 copies, put the society...
...heard of it," said Zorn, and shuddered as he thought of the Todal-"a blob of glup [that] makes a sound like rabbits screaming, and smells of old, unopened rooms." Still worse, the Duke explained, "it's made of lip [and] it gleeps...