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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feuds have cooled too. Gone are the days, he says, when he dismissed Walter Winchell as "a cringing coward" and Hedda Hopper as "downright illiterate" for printing "garbage" about celebrities; during his frequent clashes over the pirating of talent, he put down Steve Allen and his manager as "two punks" and squelched Arthur Godfrey with the line, "By the way, what does he do now?" (He hosts a CBS Radio morning show.) During a contract dispute with Frank Sinatra some years ago, Sullivan took a full-page ad in Variety to lambaste the singer for "false and reckless charges"; Frankie...
...Laughing Matter. Most of The Dubliners' arrangements are appropriately home-brewed from traditional materials that the boys have assimilated on their pub crawls. At its frequent best, their hard-edged raucousness restores even the most familiar ballads to the folk sources where they were spawned. A song like the traditional Weila Waile, which the Clancys turn into a laff riot, comes off in The Dubliners' brawny hands as the grisly epic of infanticide that it actually is. The often sentimentalized Rising of the Moon becomes in the Dubliners' ver sion a powerful, harrowing hymn of revolutionary heroism...
...Cooper Union, Pratt, Bennington and now Hunter), is still "an exercise in sheer hysteria. I sometimes think I'm going to pass out before I get going." Friends' trials move him deeply. In addition, since a 1961 auto crackup, he has developed a blood disease that causes frequent nosebleeds, and fogging out. What mainly sustains him nowadays is the heady thrill of success, the joy of being called upon to create bigger and more exciting monuments-and alcohol. He consumes at least half a bottle of Old Crow or vodka...
Last week Harvard was a well-balanced, hard-running, sure-passing team in the second quarter. There were only two problems penalties were far too frequent, and the boys took an awful long time to get going...
This, by itself, is not a represensible exercise in official propaganda. Governments never have distinguished themselvse as merchants of intellectual honesty. But what makes the frequent invocation of "never another Munich" a particularly dangerous ploy is the absence of any detalied discussion by the government of the decidedly non-monolithic character of international Communism...