Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the University students' annual news review, Echo, with undergraduate temerity published the drawing, printed a rumor that juvenile Franja had been so embarrassed by her parents' Christmas card that she had persuaded her father-a critic of progressive education -to send her off to join a friend in progressive Jokake School in Arizona...
...whole uncertain business of radio, broadcasters of house programs lead the most uncertain careers. And of all such radio ephemera, none is more ephemeral than the studio book critic. Efforts to put book talk on the air have generally been short-lived...
Unique exception is San Francisco's Joseph Henry Jackson, whose weekly Reader's Guide series concluded last week its 14th year of continuous broadcasting. His program rates, despite its cultural stigma, as radio's outstanding hardy perennial. Originated by Book Critic Jackson over KGO (then in Oakland) in 1924, Reader's Guide was extended to cover all of the Pacific Coast when NBC added KGO to its Blue network. Guide Jackson now splits the network Sunday evenings at 9:30 EDST with Gossiper Walter Winchell, making his literary advice available to all of the West...
...were shocked when labor-loving Publisher Palmer's entire editorial staff went on strike. With a Guild contract about to be signed, Publisher Palmer had decided to retrench by firing three active Guild members: Political Editor Roger Johnson, a past president of the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, Drama Critic Elizabeth Yeaman and Editorial Writer Mel. G. Scott Jr. To the Guild, this was discriminatory discharge in violation of the Labor Act and cause for a strike. Sorrowfully, Publisher Palmer hired a staff of scabs, insisting that, as a liberal, he must fight for "the right to regulate the size...
Editors and owners of the Nutmeg are ten: American Newspaper Guild President Heywood Broun, music critic and composer Deems Taylor, publicist Stanley Hoflund High, cinema editor Colvin Brown, distiller James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, novelists John Erskine (The Private Life of Helen of Troy) and Ursula Parrott (Ex-Wife), journalist Quentin Reynolds, advertising executive Jack Pegler (brother of Westbrook), literary agent George T. Bye. Saluting its neighbors, the Nutmeg announced: "We have no policy. . . . The Nutmeg is our cracker barrel. There will always be a seat for you on a nail keg. We promise to supply at least two problems where...