Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight raged around Novelist E. (for Eileen) Arnot Robertson, who in 1946 was dropped as BBC's film critic after M-G-M charged that her reviews were "unnecessarily harmful." Because the movie company publicized its complaining letter to BBC, Miss Robertson sued for libel and slander and collected $6,000 damages (TIME, July...
London's Critics Circle began raising funds for a last appeal-to the House of Lords. The goal: $28,000, the extra $8,000 to cover costs if Miss Robertson should lose again. Out went a distress message signed by five members. In their zeal, the critics hinted that Miss Robertson had been a victim of M-G-Malice. The studio promptly threatened libel action...
...Miss Bacon's implication seems to be that Frances and the other Merediths have cheated Spinelli out of the one gesture that might have lent dignity to his life; and that when the innocence of people like the Merediths is compounded with irresponsibility it becomes the equivalent of guilt...
These implications are capably handled by Miss Bacon, but they are often too heavy a burden for the frail frame of her novel. Still, as a first novel, A Star Called Wormwood is a notable performance...
...Mathiessen leaned forward in his chair, uncertainly. She had only been talking twenty minutes. Miss Moore then said, "That's all," and gave a downward affirmative jerk of her head. People began to applaud and she 'seemed a little flustered. She gathered up her little slips of paper and the visit was over...