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...Crime moved off to a commanding lead in the very first inning, picking up 15 runs off bearded WHRB moundsman Reilly Atkinson, III. The CRIMSON scored one run in each of the remaining eight innings...
...bullied to carve out a niche for Eugene O'Neill, the first U.S. dramatist to achieve worldwide renown. He worked as hard to popularize such famed European playwrights as Sean O'Casey, Ferenc Molnar, and Luigi Pirandello. Says the New York Times's Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson: "Nathan had as profound an influence on the American theater as George Bernard Shaw on English theater...
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Groundless Fears. Brooks Atkinson is also one of the few U.S. theater critics who earned a byline as a topnight newsman. After a ten-month tour as the Times's-Moscow correspondent in 1945, Atkinson won a Pulitzer Prize for his clear-focused reporting on conditions inside Russia. During World War II, he persuaded the Times to send him off as a war correspondent, spent two rugged years leapfrogging the war in China, Burma and India...
While most critics become crabbier with age, Veteran Atkinson seems to some theatergoers to have mellowed. After the Times covered the Sardi's party in its theater-review format under the headline FOR (NOT BY) BROOKS ATKINSON, some readers wondered how he could bring himself to rap another play. Their fears proved groundless. That night Critic Atkinson left the opening performance of Norman Krasna's Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? (see THEATER), strode two blocks to the Times and neatly scribbled a panning review...