Word: whispering
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...scrawls her column in longhand that only her secretary can read, usually rewrites her This Week column five or six times. Clem speaks in a hoarse whisper as a result of an operation in which part of her larynx and vocal cords were removed 20 years ago (it took her a year to learn to talk again). In her summer home in Redding. Conn., she likes to cook in the open fireplace over the coals. "I think I cook a nice meal," she says modestly, prefers simple curries, baked beans and brown bread, spaghetti. One night a week...
...will to write; then a muscular disorder made it physically impossible. He destroyed most of what he had written of the play cycle. His dark brown eyes rested in a pathetically drawn face, his big frame grew skeletal, his voice, out of control, now boomed, now croaked in a whisper. He was in and out of hospitals. The few people who met him called him gentle and immensely patient. When he died last week at 65, he left at least three plays in manuscript, including the reportedly autobiographical Long Day's Journey Into Night, which, by the terms...
...shock when they discover that the cost of distributing goods in the U.S. is considerably higher than in Europe. And because the American market is so big and active, the seller must make more noise with ads to be heard at all. Many foreign producers are reluctant even to whisper...
...Center began a special program of publication. Its myriad volumes and journals have complete documentation and absolutely no bias. The publications speak scientifically and sanely, thus incurring the wrath both of the old temperance people, who prefer the fanatical scream, and of the alcohol distributors, for whom even a whisper is too loud...
...there is Alan Ladd, an actor who, even in the squalor of a windjammer's brig, carries himself as if he were wearing a dinner jacket under his rags. Instead of Charles Laughton there is James Mason, who makes (whenever he raises his voice above its customary elegant whisper) a fetching younger version of Captain Bligh. The wishbone of contention between Ladd and Mason is provided by a chicken named Patricia Medina, who offers, to say the least, some pretty pickings. She is rather peremptorily picked, in the end, by Actor Ladd, when both have safely reached Australia...