Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Herald Tribune's M. C. Blackman, making a tour of Manhattan bars, found the patrons restless. In a West 38th Street saloon, Otello was largely drowned out by Buttons and Bows from the jukebox, and finally a customer shouted: "Turn on the fights-I want to see the little guy get murdered." Concluded Reporter Blackman: "Opera is not likely to supplant boxing in midtown bars and grills...
According to Art Expert Samuel M. Green (who describes them in the current Magazine of Art), they are also some of the best. A Hatch cannon surmounted by two eagles, a near-life-size horse, and a tree full of carved cats have all disappeared, but a wooden treasure remains. Among the highlights: a gutter spout representing a sea monster and reminiscent of medieval gargoyles (though Hatch never saw any); a side entrance adorned with lion heads, snakes and stars...
Lone Wolf Pearson rarely attends press conferences. "I'm criticized so much for running off-the-record stuff," he explains mildly, "that I'd rather not even hear it." But he makes it a practice to pump other newsmen and print what they heard. Last week he broadcast a partly accurate, partly distorted version of Secretary Marshall's views on China, which had been given in confidence to reporters in a Statler hotel room. (A Pearson legman had bragged in advance that he would find out what Marshall said.) To some extent Pearson is thus endangering...
...argument with mother-in-law (TIME, May 18, 1942 et seq.). Cissy and Pearson had continued to get along fine even after Drew and Cissy's daughter Felicia got a friendly divorce. ("He wanted me to be too domestic," says Felicia. "I'm not much for pressing pants." Grandfather Pearson still dotes on their daughter Ellen and her year-old son Drew.) Cissy and Pearson split over politics: Pearson & Allen became too New Dealish for Cissy's taste. Mrs. Patterson not only threw the column out of her Times-Herald, but fired Movie Reviewer Luvie Pearson...
...worth suing over. Editors seldom ask Pearson for his proof. They know he will fight the case for them if they are sued. It is not altruism on his part. He cannot afford to lose many suits and stay in business. "But when someone shows me I'm wrong," he says, "I retract in a hurry." If he is sure he is right, he stands pat against threats and legal action...