Word: temperedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arrowsmith Adverse. Aaron's father was a deacon in the Congregational Church, and smuggled runaway slaves to Canada, but when Aaron befriended a runaway dog, the old man blew its head off with a shotgun. Aaron's girl was Nadine, a Catholic in the town of Adams, "a...
Despite bad-tempered outbursts, Bing has usually shown a notable ability to get along with the boss. When John S. Knight bought the Free Press in 1940, he took control of the news columns away from Bingay, left him in charge only of the editorial page. Nevertheless, writes Bing solemnly...
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians, peacefully packing their instruments after rehearsal, gave a startled gasp. Across the stage, bellowing like a Straussian tuba, rushed Henry H. Reichhold, the terrible-tempered industrialist (Reichhold Chemicals, Inc.) and chief financial backer of the orchestra. His shouts were directed at First Cellist Georges Miquelle...
Co-featured with "Rogues Regiment" is a Hollywood heartwarmer entitled "Big city." It features the cop on the Beat (George Murphy), a good-hearted gamin (Butch Jenkins), and sundry other people you want to avoid. Worst of all it has Margaret O'Brien. This observer has always felt that M...
Henning joined the Trib in 1899, a cub from Chicago's City News Bureau. After a stint at general assignments and politics, he went to Washington and became bureau chief in 1914. Henning was one of the favored reporters William Howard Taft called in for press conferences around the...