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Washington Post Music Critic Paul Hume, whose opinion of daughter Margaret's singing last month prompted Harry Truman to take angry pen in hand, felt the sting of some critical grapeshot himself. After Hume narrated Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf for a National Symphony children's concert in Constitution Hall, the Post printed a frank opinion by six-year-old Critic Frank Manola: "He doesn't sound like Basil Rathbone on my Peter and the Wolf records. He sounds more like Phil Harris on the radio...
...these discharges of verbal grapeshot infuriate Crump's enemies, they charm and stimulate his admiring friends and followers. For Ed Crump, a ruthless, rawhiding, ramrodding political boss, is also a dramatic figure molded in the fighting Tennessee tradition of Andy Jackson, Sam Houston, and Nolichucky Jack Sevier-and thousands of Tennesseans love...
Southern colleges and University of Chicago's peppery President Robert Maynard Hutchins traded whiffs of grapeshot last week over Chicago's new two-year bachelor's degree. When members of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools denounced the Hutchins plan as "cheapening . . . the baccalaureate degree," Hutchins wired them a challenge: let their graduating seniors try the examinations to be given to sophomores for Chicago's baccalaureate...
...Soitout's winning bust was exhibited with much éclat in the Salon of 1850. There was some talk of ordering replicas for public buildings, but while the discussion was still going on pale Louis Napoléon abruptly ended the Second Republic with his famed whiff of grapeshot. Soitout's Marianne was hustled away to an attic. There she stayed for 28 years. With the Third Republic firmly established, Marianne was hauled out for the Exposition of 1878. At the close of the Exposition the State offered her to the City of Paris which placed the lady...
Damn Your Honor was conceived by Bayard Veiller, a tireless practitioner of the grapeshot-&-canister style of playwriting, and Becky Gardiner, recruited from the heroic reaches of cinemaland. It has a piratical hero named La Tour (John Halliday), a high-born heroine named Cydalyse (Jessie Royce Landis), five settings by Lee Simonson depicting various splendid aspects of Colonial New Orleans. When the buccaneer has gained the heart and boudoir of the Governor's wife and that overbearing villain has been duly cuckolded, there occurs what bids fair to be recalled as a line-of-the-season. La Tour discovers...