Word: oned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Frank Waldrop, editor of the Washington Times-Herald, came home for dinner one evening last fortnight, his ten-year-old son Andrew had exciting news: "Harry Hopkins was a spy!" The boy had been listening to Fulton Lewis Jr.'s radio interview with ex-Major G. Racey Jordan and, as Waldrop said afterward, "That was his young way of summing it up." Waldrop's own way of summing it up for his readers was to reprint verbatim the broadcast of Lewis, who is not celebrated for his accuracy. Waldrop made no effort to determine whether...
...that, Pegler exploded into print with a far different version of the 1946 settlement. It was Pearson, he sneeringly charged, who had "begged and pleaded" to be permitted to withdraw his (first) suit without trial. To show that he had not given up one bit of his overworked function of calling names, Pegler printed his own "amended answer" to Pearson's complaint in his second suit. Wrote Pegler: "[Pearson] is a habitual, incorrigible, professional liar, as distinguished from an occasional or accidental liar ... Plaintiff is a liar, faker and blackguard from...
...One conclusion reached early . . . was that we were no judge of our own writings. Something we care for a great deal . . . falls without a sound into the quiet pool of public inattention...
...Genius in the Pot? To most U.S. musicians and music lovers, the ascension of Charles Munch to the nation's most prestigious musical throne had come with the jolting surprise of one of Hector Berlioz' sudden bursts of brass...
...Flat Stomach. When Bostonians heard Munch conduct their orchestra on his 1946 visit, his music had shocked some. It seemed more violent and more rushed, particularly in the allegro movements of Beethoven symphonies. But one man was not at all surprised when Munch was asked to succeed Koussy. The New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson had heard Munch conduct 15 years before in Paris and had prophesied that he would eventually lead the Boston. Why? Says Critic Thomson: "He was a natural Boston conductor, flat-stomached and grey-haired, and he created hysteria, particularly in the female over...