Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week a man who knows what he likes and is quite sure that intelligent ignoramuses can be taught to know likewise published a book to mend such matters. Music for the Man Who Enjoys 'Hamlet', by B. H. Haggin (Knopf, $2.75), the Nation's music critic, is intended primarily for laymen, but might give any musical adept pleasure for the lucidity of its musical discussion...
...could understand. He was the man for Fostoria, Ohio; for Shawnee, Hennessey, Pauls Valley, Upper Sandusky and Lower Salem. By the time he reached Oklahoma he was happily exhibiting two ten-gallon hats, a lariat, and a pair of spurs, gifts from the grateful citizenry en route. When a critic out front challenged his pronunciation he broke off and said: "Listen, I came off a farm in Ohio...
William Henry Chamberlin is a scholarly author whose twelve years (1922-34) as the Christian Science Monitor's Moscow correspondent changed him from an ardent admirer of Communism into a disillusioned critic (Collectivism-A False Utopia). This week, writing in Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, he gave his verdict on the significance of the Browder-Hillman campaign for Term IV, Said...
...Ponce critic who did not flee to the Mexican Embassy was Alejandro Cordova, bald little Congressman and publisher of El Imparcial. One day Publisher Cordova was murdered by assassins. Last week Ponce held a closely supervised election to name, among others, a successor for Deputy Cordova. People shouting "Viva Arevalo!" were clapped in jail. Then the revolution broke out. Before he left for Mexico, General Ponce occupied Arevalo's former suite in the Mexican Embassy...
...hired away from the Cowles brothers in Minneapolis, rolled into Chicago to take over as executive editor. Carroll Binder (rhymes with kinder), who had run the foreign staff, resigned. Into his job stepped Editor Paul Scott Mowrer. Other able craftsmen remained, among them Lloyd Downs Lewis, managing editor, drama critic and biographer; sage, literary Howard Vincent O'Brien, editorial page columnist; Cartoonists Vaughn Shoemaker and Cecil Jensen, creator of "Colonel McCosmic...