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Last week the Carracci received a tribute from the greatest holdout of them all, Critic Bernard Berenson,,' who once dismissed their whole school as "worthless." Wrote Berenson in Milan's Corriere della Sera: "After a century of obscurity and almost oblivion the Carracci, with a roll of drums and the sound of trumpets, have made their great comeback in Bologna." Berenson still refused to place the Carracci "among the greatest painters," but he gave a cheer for Annibale's Butcher Shop. Said he: "My attention is attracted by the realism that pervades this painting...
...editors, the blackout request raised the question: Should the press ever abrogate its duty of reporting the news? All wire services and morning dailies except one readily promised to observe the police deadline. The holdout: the Daily News, where a reporter promised to relay the police request to the city desk and call back. By 8 p.m. Police Secretary John MacDonald started telephoning the other morning papers to get formal confirmation of their pledge to withhold the story. But, said police, at about 8:30 p.m., the News had called to say it could not hold the story; by then...
...John Foster Dulles called neutralism "obsolete" in his Ames, Iowa speech (TIME, June 18), European newspapers and politicians accused Dulles of trying to restore a "tough" foreign policy behind the convalescing President's back. Along Washington's Embassy Row, diplomats were saying that Adenauer is "the last holdout in the cold...
...Nothing if not stubborn, Ted Williams, hard-hitting holdout from the Boston Red Sox, refused to return to baseball until his divorce was final; a big salary might complicate the court's decision on settlement. The layoff seemed hardly worthwhile. A Miami court ordered him to hand over $50,000, a $42,000 house, $6,000 for court costs, a 1954 Cadillac and some other financial odds and ends. Ted wasted not a moment getting back on the Boston payroll...
...first witness asked to testify on a bill introduced by Arkansas Democrat Oren Harris to overturn the Supreme Court decision, restore gas prices to free competition. Kuykendall told the committee that the FPC had voted 4-1 (the holdout: Republican'Claude Draper) in favor of exempting independent gas producers from federal controls. Said Kuykendall: "We believe that a sound fuel policy is essential to a robust and expanding internal economy and to the successful development of the national defense. We believe that no sound fuel policy can be erected upon such discrimination as presently exists against natural...