Word: elmhirst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free show for 350 U.N. staff members, delegates and their wives at Manhattan's City Center. It had been danced some 2,500 times here & abroad. After World War II came, Jooss (pronounced yose) and his dancers returned to Dartington Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Elmhirst's fabulous cultural hothouse in Devon, England, later performed regularly for Britons and Allied troops. The 26-man Jooss Ballet is now touring the U.S. for the first time since...
...TIME (March 20) you state that "the New Republic, non-interventionist until a few months before Pearl Harbor, shifted to reflect the views of its owner, Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst. U.S.-born, she has become a British citizen...
...Leonard Elmhirst is not the owner of the New Republic. Ownership was transferred a number of years ago from the editors to Editorial Publications, Inc., a New York corporation. During the whole history of the magazine no attempt has ever been made by its financial sponsors to influence the editors. When we make mistakes, as we are perfectly capable of doing, they are our own mistakes...
...TIME, which sometimes makes mistakes too, erred in implying that Mrs. Elmhirst, who established the trust funds which largely meet the paper's deficit, controls the New Republic's editorial policy...
...pinko New Republic has been found by the New Leader to show symptoms of "totalitarian liberalism" and also to be "a journal of subsidized opinion." (The New Republic, non-interventionist until a few months before Pearl Harbor, shifted to reflect the views of its owner, Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst. U.S.-born, she has become a British citizen, was co-founder of the New Republic with her late husband, Willard Straight...