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...Hollywood to discuss the filming of her Texas-baiting novel, Giant, Edna Ferber appeared unconcerned about how Texans would take to the movie. Said she: "I think they're kind of getting worn down now, like you do after a good big fight. They're wiping the sweat from their collective brows and admitting, 'Well, maybe some of us are like that, at that...
...Yorkers, still discussing Edna Ferber's taunt that their city was "the dirtiest in the world" (TIME, May 4), got some new criticism to chew on last week...
Bestselling Author Edna (Giant) Ferber, fresh from a tour of European cities, eased into home port aboard the Cunard liner, Queen Elizabeth, as it docked in New York last week. Even before setting foot ashore, she had some harsh words to say about the city: "New York is the dirtiest city in the world ... a once exquisitely beautiful woman who has declined into a dirty, degraded, blowzy person ... a scab on the face of our country." The streets, she added, were covered with garbage, "and I don't mean dirt...
Mulrain called the Ferber taunt "an insult to my hard-working men," challenged his critic to join him in a garbage-seeking tour. The only difficulty was that Mulrain himself had deplored New York's "perennially filthy condition" while urging greater civic pride last February...
...Boston Chamber of Commerce yesterday sent an invitation to visit Boston to Edna Ferber, noted violinist, who recently declared on a return from Europe that New York was a "disgustingly dirty city." Boston Globe