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...responsible for the "melancholy exhibition" are two top Timesmen, both wild radicals by comparison with their staid predecessors. Bald, well-tailored Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward, 53, editor since 1941, is a deceptively mild-appearing man who gives "first place to second thoughts." The man who wrote the offending editorial on British policy in Greece, and ten like it since, has been on the Times only four months- but he is regarded as the most up & coming journalist in Fleet Street. He is able, amiable Donald Tyerman, 36, accountant's son who has been partly paralyzed since...
...recent meeting of the staid Soviet cultural society VOKS, lively protests were loudly uttered by U.S. and British correspondents because, unlike Soviet newsmen, they are not allowed to visit the Russian front (TIME, Oct. 16). The first protesting speech was made by the Philadelphia Inquirer's Al Kendrick, himself a native of Stalin's own Georgia and longtime student of Russian history. Only result of the complaints: an embarrassed changing of the subject. Last week, Correspondent Kendrick, fed up with cabling home rehashes of the Moscow papers, suggested that he be recalled. The Inquirer's managing editor...
...opening concert of the orchestra's 103rd season in Carnegie Hall, then gave convention the boot by playing an encore-George Gershwin's jazzy / Got Rhythm. Although the first Philharmonic encore in many years brought down the house, it struck the New York Times's staid music critic, Olin Downes, as "an unwise impulse...
Last week Random House's bouncy President Bennett Cerf, editor of the Modern Library, suddenly announced that Grosset & Dunlap had been acquired by a three-firm combination: Random House, Book-of-the-Month Club (575,000 membership) and staid old Harper & Bros. The reprint house, purred Mr. Cerf, with no bow to Mr. Field, would remain in experienced book-publishing hands, would therefore retain its "high standards and traditions." Smart Publisher Cerf looked frankly pleased at having beaten Mr. Field to a buy, chatted happily about "enormous postwar markets," predicted that books would soon be "a flounder business rather...
Meanwhile the Russian government was reported to be hunting three Finnish war criminals: ex-Premier Risto Ryti, ex-Premier Edwin Linkomies, ex-Finance Minister Väinö Tanner. The staid New York Times reflected a change in the political climate and habits of a decade by reporting not that the fugitive Finns had gone into hiding, but that they "had gone underground...