Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claim that the Metropolitan District Commission has granted the C.D.F. "exclusive use ... of the new Art Center Theatre for the next several years and possibly long thereafter." This is mere conjecture on your part. The M.D.C. has not made any long-range commitments for the Theatre's use; so why do you want to stir up trouble before any has arisen...
...twice refer to the C.D.F. as an "extinct" organization, and claim it "quit several years ago." This is an irresponsible falsehood. The C.D.F. only started in 1956, when it gave three productions: Henry V, a new version of The Beggar's Opera, and Saint Joan. It brought us Emlyn Williams and Marcel Marceau in 1957, two productions by the Theatre National Populaire in 1958, the Vieux-Colombier company and Gielgud's Ages of Man early this year, and is offering three shows this summer. Extinct? No; you, Mr. Capp, are the dodo...
Therefore, your claim that the MeBAC theatre is being "used as a weapon by one group to kill off all the others" is shown to be rash and unfounded...
...Finally, in a frantic outburst, you claim that the M.D.C., "in an appalling example of un-Americanism,... handed over a quarter of a million dollars of tax-money (and plenty more to come) to a group of the socially prominent, and those who hope to achieve social prominence by fooling around in the theatre--at the city's expense." Not only is this statement unwarranted, but it is also patently libelous; and it would serve you right to have a defamation suit tossed in your lap. Neither the C.D.F., Group 20, nor any other local drama group is concerned with...
Trap Drums & Businessmen. After studying at M.I.T. and the famed Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he offended a department of meteorology at New York University with the breezy claim that he could forecast more accurately than the local U.S. weatherman. At Minnesota he outraged College of Education colleagues in 1957 by blithely asserting that they had replaced the three Rs with "the three Ts-typing, tap dancing and tomfoolery." Once he thrust his martini glass at Minneapolis Symphony Conductor Antal Dorati and said: "Tony, we can build a machine that can compose music." Retorted Dorati: "Well, then you'd better...