Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casualty was the Weekly's editor, aging (69) Walter Howey, prototype of The Front Page's Managing Editor Walter Burns. Just four days before his death, Hearst removed Howey and replaced him with mild Ken McCaleb, 50, who had done an able job of sparking up the New York Mirror's Sunday magazine. Howey, himself one of the eight executors named in Hearst's will,* remains as an "editorial consultant" and editor of the Boston Hearstpapers, but reportedly his power is on the wane...
...sharp criticism from serious musicians. When the pressure of the pop business made him pass up a chance to play with Cellist Pablo Casals at the Prades Festival, Miller's friend, Violinist Alexander Schneider rebuked him, called him a traitor to good music. Miller took it with a mild objection: "Why, I'm playing oboe better now than ever before...
Back to the Czar. Pravda's reply, twice as long as the Morrison statement and printed right alongside, is in its way as remarkable as the unprecedented gesture of publishing the Morrison text. By Soviet standards of invective, it is mild; in spots, it sounds strangely apologetic and naive...
Shock After Shock. Bayreuth got its first jolt-though, as matters turned out, a relatively mild one-with the new Parsifal. Gone were the traditional leafy gardens and churchly interiors of the past...
Were gamblers really trying to fix big-time golf as they had fixed big-time basketball? Next day, with a mild case of jitters, Mangrum played under an armed police escort, but blasted a 2-under-par 70 to take $2,250 first prize money (and to become the year's top money winner with $18,948.83). Later, he told newsmen it was not quite a new experience: two years ago, a man he knew (since "sent up the river for dope peddling or something") offered him a share "in cutting up $7,000" if he would finish...