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...your Nov. 15 "So Lovely & So Bruised": Miss Dorothy Kilgallen's "report" of the LSheppard] trial, as seen in your printed excerpt, is one of the most glaring examples of the ever-increasing, detestable "trials by newspaper" . . . Unconsciously, Miss Kilgallen designed her narrative to display one emotion for one person: quivering sympathy for Mrs. Sheppard . . . After a gruesome, adjective-laden description of the slides of the dead woman, consider the effect of the sob sister's subsequent sentence: "No wonder at all that Dr. Sam (meaning the defendant, I presume) cried. He could remember well, without looking...
...pompously with a Biblical quotation (naturally -"Let there be light!"). But it soon came down from the clouds with an amusing review of early disasters in the appliance field (e.g., washing machines that shredded dresses; refrigerators with unmovable ice cubes). The filmed portion of the show included a lively excerpt from Tom Sawyer (the scene where Tom dupes his friends into whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence); an old but still very funny Robert Benchley short about the care and feeding of infants, and the dramatization of an inspirational John Steinbeck story, starring Brandon de Wilde and Walter Brennan...
When Arturo Toscanini made his farewell public appearance with the NBC Symphony two months ago. the world of music sighed with regret. Toscanini himself was so moved that, incredibly, he fumbled an excerpt from Tannhäuser and, for about a minute, lost his place (TIME, April 12). Had the 87-year-old maestro finally reached the end of the score? Last week Toscanini was again conducting the NBC orchestra-in two recording sessions to polish up rough spots in earlier tapings of Verdi operas. The maestro was still in supreme form...
...even from his own musicians: Arturo Toscanini, the greatest performing musician alive today, had retired. For almost a fortnight, his letter of resignation to RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff had rested, unsigned, on his desk. Abruptly, on his 87th birthday, Toscanini made his decision, ran upstairs and signed it. Excerpt: "And now the sad time has come when I must reluctantly lay aside my baton and say goodbye to my orchestra ... I shall carry with me rich memories of these years of music making...
Attempted naturalism is the issue's real downfall in S. W. Thompson's The Alcohol, and Eugene Higgins' excerpt from The Sons of Darkness. Thompson makes a stab at slipping a little social commentary into a picture of lower-class life, but defeats his own attempt at realism by a ludicrous overuse of profanity, bad grammar, and irrelevant detail. Higgins' story has little to recommend it. It is juvenile in its forced attention to detail and never really reaches the reader...