Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also the Herald's able music critic, is probably the brightest newspaper writing done in the city; its editorials last year by John Crider, editorial page editor, were good enough to win a Pulitzer Prize for general excellence. The Herald's biggest circulation asset is Sportwriter Bill Cunningham, whose orotund mastery of the cliche is often a frontpage delight to readers. Wrote Cunningham from the Florida training camps last week: "Theodore Samuel Williams, the quondam splendid splinter, caught one squarely upon the schnozzola and propelled it in a spectacular parabola all the way into the unchartered...
...column article on the late Professor Francis O. Matthiessen by Boston Herald columnist Bill Cunningham has led to a flurry of editorial rebuttals in that paper over the last week. The article appeared last Monday, the day of Matthiessen's funeral, and referred to his suicide as "a confession of moral cowardice" and the "ne plus ultra of dramatizing oneself to the last possible fraction of a second...
...Cunningham article was headlined "Matthiessen's End a Warning--Basic Intelligence Triumphs Over Professor's Ideology...
...article launched into an attack on Matthiessen's political affiliations and the manner of his death. "To me," Cunningham continued, "he represented the worst kind of college professor, the kind who can command attention through his degrees and the faculty standing he holds in some great university, but who prostitutes both--and himself--in unholy causes...
Finley's replay asserted that Cunningham's view was purely a political comment and "lacked feeling for the final complexity of any human life." His letter continued...