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...News hastened to assure its readers that it was not accustomed to keeping company with such "quality folks"-and that it wasn't planning to try. Added the News: "This newspaper is run ... for the readers, and we don't give a hoot in hell whether it pleases other newspapers or editors or makes them sick . . . We're for the general public, its likes and dislikes, its peeves and aspirations, in so far as we're able to divine the same. We've been out with the gang exactly 29 years today...
...People will be seen as well as heard). And then there are films, the wilted coleslaw on television's bill of fare. The ancient cabbages that are rolled across the telescreen every night are Hollywood's curse on the upstart industry. Televiewers, sick of hoary Hoot Gibson oaters and antique spook comedies, wonder when, if ever, they will see fresh, first-class Hollywood films...
Every university has its own raison d'etre. Virginia wins football games, Yale trains popular song-writers, and Harvard nestles saugly by the Charles, For many centuries Harvard men haven't given a hoot about most things, but they have always hotly defended their right to nestle. New, the traditional nestling, which among other details depends on having a low, compact skyline, threatens to be violated, and no one is becoming angry. What has happened...
Divorced. By Frances Dodge Johnson, 33, multimillionheiress (Dodge autos) horsewoman (owner of Hoot Mon, 1947 Hambletonian winner): James Benjamin Johnson Jr., 42, her stable manager; after nearly ten years of marriage, one child; in Pontiac, Mich...
...result was usually a scandal. Connoisseurs could find their way about like owls in the brown murk of academic painting; Manet's light-filled colors simply made them hoot. His subject matter, all agreed, was worse than vulgar. Manet had seen fit to invite common people off the street to pose for him, he imitated the impossible glare of sunshine, and he even dared to picture nudes in contemporary settings. Napoleon III himself pronounced Manet's Déjeuner sur I'Herbe (see cut) a threat to public morals. Public disgust was summed up in one word...