Fred Newman may be a walking sound-effects machine, but he's been pretty quiet about the star-studded chapters of his life story. He's rarely, if ever, publicly shared anecdotes about his early ...

Walking reshapes brain hearing, shifting sound focus with movement and turns for safer, sharper daily listening.

Quoting Wes Harrison, otherwise known as ``Mr. Sound Effects,'' isn't that easy. The grammatical concept of ``onomatopoeia'' -- the formation of words by imitating sounds'' -- comes to mind. But even ...