Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only-accomplishment of the Army-McCarthy hearings has been the introduction of Joseph Nye Welch to American televiewers. His wonderful performance is the best entertainment I've had in years. Thank you . . . for his background sketch [TIME...
...because the paper refused to stop printing letters criticizing his own acting. (Fleet Streeters also half-jokingly said that he infuriated his boss Lord Beaverbrook at a dinner party by blowing a smoke ring across the table into the Beaver's open mouth.) On Lord Rothermere's Sketch he found the tabloid an incongruous place for his erudite, allusive prose. But his new job on the more highbrow Observer is just the kind of spot that Tynan has wanted ever since Oxford. On the Observer, says one of Tynan's friends, he will continue to write "what...
...reviews. But he succeeded magnificently. Now 27, and with a full three years of life left, he has already written three books (on the theater and its personalities), moved from Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard (which called him "the greatest theater critic since Shaw") to the tabloid Daily Sketch (which billed him as "the liveliest writer of the day"). In August, Tynan becomes drama critic for the Sunday Observer (circ. 475,609), roughly the equivalent of the New York Times job now held by Brooks Atkinson...
Last week the Wall Street Journal tried to scoop the industry by coming out with a dope story, illustrated with sketches of the 1955 models of Chevrolet, Ford and Dodge. Those who have seen the new models thought that the Journal had picked up some old blueprints of the Chevrolet; there have been at least two new designs since that model. Ford executives were frankly surprised at the sketch of the front end of the Ford: it looked like a Studebaker, bore little resemblance to their 1955 model. The most accurate sketch was of the Dodge, with a flat hood...
...Sketch printed the review and without consulting Hopkinson added several sentences to the effect that the film was "sure and faithful in its ... technical and atmospherical detail." Author of the changes was Editor Gunn, whose wife Olive Gunn had been the technical adviser for the film. When he saw the review in print, Hopkinson promptly protested to the Sketch, received a letter of apology from Gunn in which he said that he had intended to run the review without Hopkinson's byline, but it was mistakenly left on. Hopkinson took his complaint to Britain's year...