Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week when USFET Commander General Joseph T. McNarney told his press conference that "discipline has tightened up considerably," the streams of unsavory stories from U.S.-occupied Europe remained at flood. Births in the U.S. zone were 30% illegitimate. Rowdy G.I. drunkenness forced German families to stay home after dark whenever a liquor ration was issued. Green troops, hell-bent for pleasure and to hell with the brass, found that no orders applied after retreat. Some of their officers were as bad, or worse. Items...
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major (Joseph Szigeti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 9 sides); Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Szigeti plays Brahms's bombastic music straight, while Conductor Stokowski plays it pretentiously. Szigeti's concerto is a better performance, but Stokowski's symphony is more clearly recorded on unbreakable vinylite...
...Died. Joseph Medill Patterson, 67, publisher of New York's whopping tabloid Daily News, cousin of Colonel "Bertie" McCormick (Chicago Tribune) and brother of "Cissie" Patterson (Washington Times-Herald); of a liver ailment; in Manhattan (see PRESS...
...every Newsman instantly knew, was restless Joseph Medill Patterson, 67, the maverick journalistic genius who sired the slick, expert, irritating, irreverent, gamy newspaper with the biggest circulation...
...Succeeds Caesar? Behind him Joe Patterson, moody millionaire and reformed Socialist, left an anxious question for his hirelings and rival press lords to ponder. What would happen to the gaudy Daily News, now that its heart had stopped beating? The answer might rest with two other grandchildren of old Joseph Medill, who founded a fabulous dynasty when he bought into the Chicago Tribune six years before the Civil...