Word: lackeyism
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...later issue, a picture of Senators Gore and Austin, with a well-placed lackey in the corner was no doubt also cut from a group picture and is perhaps equally as misleading. If the account accompanying the latter picture is as accurate as that accompanying the one from Paris, I am afraid my future reading of TIME will not only be with "a grain of salt" but with a handful...
...Francisco, played Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto so deftly that critics spoke of him in the same breath with Violinist Ruggiero Ricci, II, who was scheduled for a recital a few nights later in spite of his father, who protested in court last year that Guardian Elizabeth Lackey was injuring the boy by permitting him to play in public (TIME, Aug. 11, 1930), now has custody of child...
...rewarded with increasing enthusiasm. Orchestral numbers, choruses and solos won high praise last week. Outstanding feature came at the second concert when prodigious Ruggiero Ricci, aged 9, played his violin in Mendelssohn's E Minor Concerto. Because of pending litigation between his parents and his guardian, Violinist Mary Elizabeth Lackey (TIME, Aug. 11), young Ricci had been forbidden to leave New York State unguarded by police. Two stalwart officers accompanied him to the very stage of Mechanics Hall, but the boy was apparently unmoved by the stir they caused, or by the presence in the front row of his watchful...
Last week's interlocutory (provisional) opinion gave Miss Lackey guardianship of the two until Jan. 1, 1931, the parents thereafter. Most contested clause in the suit was won by Miss Lackey: that Ruggiero shall go through with ten concerts in ten weeks at $2,500 a concert this autumn. The Riccis feared for Ruggiero's health. Lackey counsel pointed to chubby, healthy Yehudi Menuhin.* The Riccis countered with Pianist Josef Hofmann's exploitation when a boy. Declared the court of prodigies in general, of Ruggiero in particular: "No such prodigious task confronts him [Ruggiero] as the one imposed on Hofmann...
...Prodigies Ricci will be pondered again by Justice Valente on Dec. 15. If they are taken from Miss Lackey permanently they will be financed by Frederick W. Bartlett of Chicago, Sinclair Oil tycoon...