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...four days before Christmas, Playwright George S. Kaufman said: "Let's make this one program on which nobody sings Silent Night." Most of the estimated 18 million viewers of This Is Show Business (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS-TV) were used to Panelist Kaufman's curmudgeon voice and comments. Many even agreed with him. But some disagreed violently. The CBS switchboard lit up with more than 200 phone calls protesting Kaufman's "irreligious remark." Next morning several hundred more complaints hit CBS and Sponsor American Tobacco Co. Even though Show Business had but three weeks...
Like Fenimore Cooper, Strong was something of the professional old codger, the cultured curmudgeon who stands in fierce, often prejudiced judgment on his age. At times, as when he declares Americans "the windiest people extant" and deplores the inclination of democracies to undervalue great men, he resembles Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America). And when he lambastes his native land for coarse materialism and imperialist forays ("Texas is annexed. I think I'll expatriate myself"), he anticipates Henry Adams. But what makes his diary good reading for Americans is its reflection of an individual mind which...
...long and highly articulate career ended with death in Washington of "the Old Curmudgeon," once F.D.R...
Early one morning this week, Harold Ickes, ill for many weeks, lapsed into a semicoma at Headwaters Farm, his 200-acre Maryland estate, 15 miles outside Washington. He was rushed to Washington's Emergency Hospital with a fast-weakening heart. A few hours later, the Old Curmudgeon died...
Died. Harold Leclair Ickes, 77, self-styled "Old Curmudgeon," longtime New Deal hatchet man and Franklin D. Roosevelt's only Secretary of the Interior (1933-46); of complications from arthritis; in Washington, D.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...