Word: steinert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This approach was familiar to Eleanor Steinert, who has covered the Chicago angles of TIME'S Petrillo stories for the last two years. Her first brush with the boss of the musicians' union was a by-product of the press conference at which he said: "We don't want any victories or any rights. All we want to do is live." Western Union transmitted it as "love," and TIME printed it that way. At a later press conference Petrillo leveled a finger at Miss Steinert and hollered: "There's that gal from TIME magazine that said...
Since then, Miss Steinert has been devoted to Petrillo-as a news source. A former member of an opera company, she appreciates a good performance, which he gives, and she has always been able to get a direct answer from him to a direct question. This time Petrillo came through in style on both counts. He had played hard-to-get when he learned that he was to be the cover subject, but the entire Chicago staff descended on him and Petrillo, who can take a production as well as give one, croaked "Ya got me outnumbered" and gave down...
...Miss Steinert, who was assigned to do the Petrillo personality, spent four hours with him straightening out such items as his schooling ("I was still in the fourth grade after nine years, so I quit"), his phobia for germs ("Only it's not like Winchell says. I open them doorknobs without the Kleenex...
...Steinert likes to recall the embarrassment she underwent in being misquoted about music czar James Caesar...
Petrillo. Petrillo had told her: "We don't want any victories or any fights. We just want to live." The copy, garbled in transit by Western Union, which was on strike, came out in TIME : "We just want to love." When Steinert sought to placate Petrillo by suggesting that the mistake might not have happened if the communications company had not been struck, he laughed and bellowed : "That's right ; these damn unions are gonna ruin the country...