Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English libretto for La Boheme six years ago (Love, rhymed Dietz, "is a feast for a Roman/ It's warming my abdomen") had a Metropolitan Opera production created such a fuss. "Among the finest productions in Bing's regime," wrote Miles Kastendiek in the New York Journal-American. "Non-Mozartean shenanigans," snorted Howard Taubman in the Times, while the Herald Tribune's Paul Henry Lang denounced it as "a travesty." Occasion: a new production, staged by Broadway's Cyril Ritchard, of Mozart's comic masterpiece, The Marriage of Figaro...
...difference? Women, suggested Dr. Hinkle, meet less disapproval if they go to a doctor or take to bed when they feel ill. "Thus," he added, "the tendency of the American male to 'carry on, no matter what' may have something to do with the fact that women live longer...
...months, publishing circles have buzzed with the rumor that the New York Journal-American (circ. 599,536), biggest afternoon paper in the Hearst chain, was selling out to Scripps-Howard's afternoon New York World-Telegram and Sun (circ. 450,486). The rumor gained currency in the light of two major Hearst and Scripps-Howard mergers: last year's merger of Hearst's money-losing International News Service with Scripps-Howard's United Press, and last summer's union of Hearst's unprofitable San Francisco evening paper, the Call-Bulletin, with Scripps-Howard...
Patiently, but with mounting irritation, Hearst executives denied the rumor every time it popped up, finally exploded last week when the American Newspaper Guild, recirculating the rumor, all but buried the Journal-American. In an article in the Guild Reporter, the Guild's International Executive Board asked U.S. Department of Justice trustbusters to investigate "with zeal a reported arrangement between Hearst and Scripps-Howard news, paper chains to carve up their markets." Continued the Guildsmen: "Now more than 600,000 subscribers of the Hearst Journal-American . . . may soon be deprived of their favorite newspaper, despite denials. The Hearst Journal...
Moving swiftly, Journal-American Publisher Joseph Kingsbury Smith had a $3,100,000 libel suit filed against the Guild. "Deliberate malice or shocking irresponsibility," said Smith of the article. "It is idiotic to think that the management of the Journal-American would be planning to suspend publication...