Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conductor Gastone Usigli. The chorus, mostly townspeople, had rehearsed weekly since September, but not until just before the festival did Usigli gather, orchestra and chorus together for an exhausting rehearsal. Says he: "Community singing is fine, but it is best for Christmas carols. A local chorus can do Gilbert & Sullivan, but the B Minor Mass-ah! that is another matter. I have to extract something from these young people that they never knew they had. Sometimes I think that if they make love the way they sing, it must be horrible...
...Forrestal. The best bets to fill two of the new subordinate secretaryships: for Air, Yaleman W. Stuart Symington, now Assistant Secretary of War for Air, socialite, industrialist and son-in-law of New York's military-wise Congressman James W. Wadsworth; for Navy, handsome Under Secretary John L. Sullivan, New Hampshire lawyer and faithful Democrat, who got his Washington start in the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
...humid humor, Westbrook Pegler, who writes for Hearst, teed off on Ed ("Little Old New York") Sullivan, who writes for the tabloid New York Daily News. One of Ed's columns had caught Peg's bloodshot eye. It "consisted of an open letter to his secretary," wrote Pegler. "This was an unusual device. Usually his secretary writes to him and in this way is able to congratulate him on remarkable feats of exclusive journalism and prophecy and thank him for kindnesses to others which he might not have the indelicacy to mention, although modesty is not his worst...
...Sullivan has long seemed to me to be willing to go to the gutter to find a hero." To prove it, Peg unwrapped a 1929 Sullivan column eulogizing Frank Marlow, a murdered Manhattan mobster ("Goodbye, Frank, and God bless you."). Pegler's verdict on Sullivan: "A prideful intimacy with many of the worst gangsters ... a professional name-dropper, a grown-up but still callow Saturday night sport...
...Sullivan's answer was in character. In a column addressed from Hollywood to "My Secretary, Africa," he asked: "What was the reaction in N.Y. to the Pegler smear? Out here . . . the reaction was boredom. He's dangerously clever, though...