Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ruins of Berlin's Russian sector there appeared last week a large neat sign (see cut) with an inscription from the works of a great critic of U.S. and British "softness" toward the Germans: "THE EXPERIENCES OF HISTORY PROVE THAT HITLERS COME AND GO, BUT THE GERMAN PEOPLE, THE GERMAN STATE REMAIN-STALIN...
...himself by Manhattan tabloids. Court records showed that he had been successfully sued last March for separation by Wife No. 3: left-wing gypsy authoress Mary McCarthy, whose scandalous storybook, The Company She Keeps, included one called Cruel and Barbarous Treatment. Said she, she had received "abusive treatment" from Critic Wilson, cited the time he had kicked her out of bed. She said she complained the following morning ("I won't stand for this," she cried), and he promptly gave her a black eye. Authoress McCarthy got her alimony award just before Hecate became a profitable bestseller. The award...
...week's end the response to Shawn's hunch, and Hersey's restrained, first-rate reporting, was the biggest thing in New Yorker history. Book Critic Lewis Gannett called Hersey's piece "the best reporting . . . of this war." The New York Times, Herald Tribune and leftist PM applauded solemnly. Manhattan newsstands sold out early on publication day. Showman Lee Shubert tried to get the dramatic rights. In Princeton, N.J., the mayor asked all citizens to read the piece. Knopf planned to publish it as a book. A radio chain wanted Paul Robeson, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne...
...parents again until he left the country in his early teens to study at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Then he went abroad, studied under Felix Weingartner in Vienna, nearly starved for five years until he got a job in England as a music critic...
Died. Channing Pollock, 66, white-maned drama critic, playwright (The Fool, The House Beautiful, The Enemy), voluble lecturer and pamphleteer; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Shoreham...