Word: post
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, left his teaching post on Monday, as a result of a sudden heart attack, which forced him to retire to Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and which will probably incapacitate him for the remainder of the spring term...
...Shock. The choice of Koussevitzky's successor was something of a surprise, but not a shock. Koussevitzky's 29-year-old protégé Leonard Bernstein had long had the inside track with his sponsor, but not with the symphony's trustees. The post went instead to 56-year-old Alsatian Charles Münch, who first came to the U.S. in December 1946, has since guest-conducted in Boston, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...
...rest of the Midwest press took sides. To the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the case was a dastardly attack on the freedom of the press. Marshall Field's Chicago Sun-Times sympathized with McCabe as a "rebel" against Governor Green's machine. The Chicago Tribune, the governor's most potent ally, ran one brief account and then dropped the story. Hearst's Herald-American saw the attack as "an outgrowth of a gang war for control of Will County's jukebox and gambling riches." Editor McCabe's competitor, the daily Joliet Herald-News, suggested...
...Lucian Cary) and began paying them good prices. Last fall he sent Richard (Guadalcanal Diary) Tregaskis off to write a round-the-world diary (at $2,000 an entry, plus expenses) for True. "For stories we really want," says Williams, "we'll outbid anybody, even the Saturday Evening Post...
...Blossom. Manhattan's Macy's, pushing a 90th anniversary sale, had a $1,000,000 day for the first time in any spring season (its daily sales have topped a million 37 other times, during the Christmas rush). But retail trade generally, reported Dun & Bradstreet, suffered a post-Easter drop of 3% to 7% from the same period last year...