Word: archly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News Bureau or Else. Washington newsmen wondered how stubborn Frank Gannett came to hire deceptively cherubic Cecil Dickson. The facts: at their first meeting Dickson, mindful of the arch-Republican Gannett slant, growled: "If you want to make a political bureau out of a news bureau, you had just as well not open it, and you had better look for another bureau manager. I'm not a Republican. I'm a real Jeffersonian Democrat. But I'm a newsman, nothing else . . . and if I take over any news bureau, it's going to be a news...
...director of many railroads), he helped Tobacconist Pierre Lorillard III plan the 400's baronial super-suburb in 1881. Descended from early American landlords (the Irish O'Kanes), Kane was the oldest living alumnus of St. Paul's School, oldest member of New York's arch-Republican Union League Club...
Designer of the arch was Lucia Helene Willoughby, a portrait painter and 23-year-old daughter of Broadway Committee Chairman P. A. Willoughby. Said the Broadway Association of her effort: "In depicting the Four Freedoms, Miss Willoughby has created several modifications of the original theme as developed by Norman Rockwell [TIME, June 21]. . . . Freedom of Speech . . . will show separate scenes. . . . Freedom from Want has been designated for the west panel. Here is portrayed Cornucopia pouring out its bounteous contents. . . . The fourth panel . . . will delineate Freedom from Fear. The ever-protecting element of mother love will be indicated by a mother...
Once Critic Jewell let go, he found it hard to control himself. Said he: "Since the 'victory arch' is now before us on this page, I am spared the anguish of having to describe it. . . . The locale selected is wrong for a victory arch . . . unless . . . we let the people who do the Macy Thanksgiving Parade, or the Soya Bean Association, or the Tight Rope Artists Union have a chance to compete. . . . In my opinion this design . . . is atrocious in every respect. It is flimsy, it is ugly, it is inept...
Wrote one prospective soldier to the Times: "Tradition dictates that at some point along the roadways of my city I'll march under a victory arch. But under the proposed Willoughby thing. . . ? Never...