Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who writes for Hearst, got off an angry piece which lashed at "some of the guttersnipes who cover the saloon beat and never bring in any news but write free advertising about some of the dirtiest criminals out of prison." Hearst's Manhattan movie critic Lee Mortimer (who recently took a couple of punches from Frank Sinatra) assured his readers that he knew Bugsy. Bugsy's death warrant, he wrote with an air of absolute authority, was signed last winter in Havana by Procurer Charles ("Lucky") Luciano...
...music critic, he kept right on attacking weak flanks. He fired his potshots impartially at the great & small. He denounced Erich Kleiber and Eugene Ormandy for sloppy guest -conducting, upbraided Chilean tenors and Uruguayan baritones for untalented concertizing. The daily pounding put Chilean artists and musicians on their guard; it also raised Santiago's music standards considerably...
...week's end the sympathetic cry had grown so great that Critic Goldschmidt was welcomed back to Seat...
...Critic. In Santa Clara, Cuba, Maria Barbara Perez wearied of her common-law husband's bathtub vocalizing, beat him to death with an automobile spring...
...audience seemed to like Albert Herring, and roared for the composer-conductor. But some critics found loose parts that they had not detected in earlier models. Said the London Times: "Mr. Britten is still pursuing his old problem of seeing how much indigestible material he can dissolve in music." Added another critic: ". . . There are certain pages . . . that seem to betray hasty composition...