Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holding office must look to his reputation," he began. "Now that I have been accused of robbing the public purse, I intend to show by documents that these charges are false. And since Prensa and Nación have echoed these uncalled-for calumnies, I now intend to see that these accusers are brought to justice...
...Carlosinho's coffee millions could not make up to Suzy for being treated like an old-fashioned Brazilian wife. She resented having to pour tea for Rio matrons while Carlosinho stepped out; she also resented the gossips' talk that, if she failed to appear in public for a few days, she was waiting at home for the black & blue marks of Carlos' annoyance to fade from her petal-soft skin. "I just can't make myself over in the Brazilian pattern," she decided, and divorced...
...report made public last week did not go so far as to call the picture a fake, but the jurors had refused to authenticate it, and they took seven pages to give their reasons. The jury complained that "within the time available for the study, exhaustive analytical work was not feasible," and presented its final opinion "with full recognition of its own fallibility." The portrait looked suspiciously inferior to the Van Goghs on exhibition at the Met, the jury agreed. It was "strident in color, weak in drawing and uncertain in the modeling of the head...
...York was not the only state with a law designed to bar subversive teachers from public schools, but it had one of the newest and toughest. The Feinberg law (TIME, April 11) empowered schools to dismiss teachers because of membership in any organization that the state Board of Regents had listed as "subversive." When the legislature passed the act last spring, cries of alarm rose from civic groups and teachers' unions as well as from the Communists who were its main target...
...complete a viola concerto for William Primrose. In the University of Minnesota's Northrop Memorial Auditorium last week, a near-capacity crowd brought Violist Primrose back onstage six times with thunderous applause. With Conductor Antal Dorati's Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, he had given the first public performance of Bartok's tragic, lyrical swan song...