Word: detractors
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During the years that Drew Pearson's syndicated column "Washington Merry-Go-Round ran in the Fairbanks, Alaska, News-Miner, Pearson's most constant detractor was C.W. (for Charles Willis) Snedden-who happens to be the News-Miner's Publisher. It seemed to Snedden that the columnist never got anything right about Alaska, not even the cost of a gallon of gas in Fairbanks, which Pearson quoted at $1 (actual price at the time: 51? to 54?). Finally Snedden could stand no more. "The garbage man of the fourth estate " his paper sneered in an editorial...
Rothenstein, who was knighted in 1952, has fought hard for the Tate-once with his fists. At a bubbly art-show opening, his chief detractor, the waspish critic Douglas Cooper, taunted Rothenstein once too often, and the bespectacled, bantamweight director flattened him with one fat punch. Rothenstein has to buy paintings before they get expensive and safe, and the result is a rare reputation for a public gallery. Its oldest painting dates from Henry VIII, but it also buys Britain's latest Pop artists. Says Rothenstein: "We're a nice mixture-something established and disestablished all at once...
...soloists, who were often embarrassing, presented another set of problems. Counter tenor Donald Parsons was the worst detractor, and bass Donald Langmuir, though not prone to missing notes like Parsons, lacked power and richness. Greer McLane, the mezzo soprano, was the best of the trio, if rather uninspired...
...Secretary-General, Hammarskjold was an obvious candidate for the 1960 Peace award. But the Nobel deadline for nominations is Jan. 31. long before the Congo emergency appeared. With Hammarskjold ruled out on this technicality (and perhaps with an eye toward avoiding controversy with Hammarskjold's vociferous detractor, Nikita Khrushchev), the committee decided to make no award...
...slurred, sultry Songstress Lena Home, dining in a Hollywood restaurant with her white husband, Musical Director Lennie Hayton, took umbrage when a nearby patron voiced an insult at the singer and her race. Pretty Lena responded with drumfire-a hurricane lamp, some dishes and three ashtrays. Her startled detractor wound up with a gash over his eye. By the time cops arrived, cooler heads had prevailed, and no charges were brought by either side...