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Married. Dorothy Schiff Hall Backer, 39, owner and publisher of New York's pale pink Post; and Theodore Olin Thackrey, 42, the Post's editor since 1942; each for the third time; a week after she divorced former Post Publisher George Backer; in Manhattan...
Also, everywhere, on Franklin Roosevelt's second secret inspection trip of World War II, were politicians and Governors: South Carolina's Olin D. Johnston, Georgia's Ellis Arnall, Alabama's Chauncey Sparks, Tennessee's Prentice Cooper, Arkansas' Homer Adkins, Oklahoma's Robert Kerr...
Concertgoers, long familiar with Stokowski's ponderous schmalzing of Bach, were not unduly surprised. But New York Times Critic Olin Downes had had enough. Said he: ". . . More could have been heard had it not been for the extremely lachrymose and dilatory tempi, and the unblushing sentimentalism in interpretation, which almost uniformly prevailed, so that the B-Minor aria with the violin solo sounded like the Méditation from Thaïs. . . . Bach's music . . . stood up surprisingly well under the handicap...
Last fortnight Critic Olin Downes paid Moriz Rosenthal homage in a nostalgic vein with the purplest passage in the modern, if not the entire, history of the New York Times. Wrote Critic Downes...
...Manhattan's critics were inclined to do little tearing down. But most of them were cautious. They agreed that the Seventh Symphony was impressive, sincere, vivid, vast. They also admitted that it was sometimes dull, sometimes theatrical, often derivative. Said the New York Times's Olin Downes: "This symphony is far from a work of sustained greatness, either of ideas, workmanship or taste," but "that it has its great moments is unarguable." Said Henry Simon of PM (to which nothing Russian is alien): "a monumental achievement, which must earn for itself a prominent place in symphonic literature." Possibly...