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Described by a New York critic as a surrealistic mishmash of "Eliot Ness, Together Ness and Pointless Ness," the season was one of unhappy comedy and unhealthy violence, of defections, dismissals and dismay. CBS lost its able News Division President Sig Mickelson. and ABC squeezed out veteran Newscaster John Daly. CBS's Edward R. Murrow took his tobacco habit to Washington as head of the U.S. Information Agency (see PRESS). Writer-Producer (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Robert Alan Aurthur quit TV with the parting shot: "Television may be unique in our free-enterprise system in that the harder...
Berle was unable to get Brazil's backing for a united Latin American front against Castro's Cuba. As the futile talk ended, Berle stuck out his hand to say goodbye. Quadros refused to shake it. Then, to the undisguised dismay of Brazilian Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos, Quadros pointedly turned his back on the special envoy of the President...
...with a radical change of style: a neoclassic Rubens-like technique featuring long-maned nudes, long-maned horses, knights in armor, and a series of self-portraits, some clothed in fancy dress and some in flabby flesh. To the artist's bitter dismay, his one-man revolution, aimed at the "horrible bestiality called modern art," failed to spark a following. Cognoscenti shunned the new technique and subject matter; De Chirico stubbornly stuck to his anachronistic style...
...dismay of the crowd, the individual medley duel between Kaufmann and Bulldog Dave Burgess--potentially the most exciting race of the day--didn't come off, as Kaufmann was needed for both relays and the backstroke...
...involves a witness who refused to answer questions put to him by the House committee. The Wilkinson ruling, however, has prompted anguished and angry dissents from Justices Black and Douglas and anyone who reads what they have to say about the implications of this decision ought to share their dismay...