Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note that Labor Leader Preble . . . was not impressed by "the song & dance about [Stefan's] mother and sister being persecuted and murdered...
Unemotional Editor McGill ran the Pegler column in its usual space, appended a tolerant editorial note: "We often get a bang out of some of Mr. Pegler's strange obsessions . . . Somehow it was not at all surprising to find him . . . using [Miss Mitchell's] death as a vehicle for rebuking the Roosevelts. We knew [her] well enough to know she made up her own mind . . . Certainly she would not [have been] swayed by the influence of an unwise, emotional Westbrook Pegler, an insensate Roosevelt-hater, whose column [may] have swayed and-deprived inferior minds...
...trail, the editors decided it was politic to pick as few quarrels as possible. In brawling Santa Fe, arguments were usually won by the man who was first on the draw. So the New Mexican's first two-page issue carried a "let's-be-friends" note: "The New Mexican, in Politics and Religion, will maintain a strict neutrality, regarding partisanship as utterly unnecessary and a barrier to the general good...
...modern London flat and a psychiatrist's Harley Street office, it contained social chitchat, a bawdy ballad and a couple of interlocking triangles. But, true to form, devout Anglo-Catholic Eliot had underlaid his comedy with sober Christian dialectic. First-nighters at the Edinburgh Festival could note that Eliot's psychiatrist and patients acted and talked more like a parson and his parishioners...
...from a piano. He sits erect before the instrument and in full command of it. His wrists are rigid and his bony fingers strong and sure...Not only does he play such numbers [as the Paderewski Minuet in G] completely and correctly, seldom if ever missing or muffing a note, but he evidences keen insight into the composer's intent by subtle shadings of interpretation...[When] he tackled a bit of Chopin...I was downright floored. I knew he played well-but not that well...