Word: defauw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earns it in readership. During her successful campaign to drive Conductor Désiré Defauw from command of Chicago's Symphony Orchestra, thousands of Trib readers who had never read a music story read Cassidy to learn how she would scratch Defauw next. At the height of the battle, the Trib received 200 complaining letters in one week from Defauw supporters, and Miss Cassidy offered to resign. Cried Bertie McCormick, "Two hundred letters to the music department? You keep right on writing...