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...building, agreed to support a company for three years if other nabobs bought $150,000 worth of stock. London Impresario Henry Russell became managing director, hired some of the top singers of the day. In its first 15-week season, the Boston Opera House staged 21 works, and the Transcript commented: "In Boston, grand opera is now endorsed by all the churches, and attendance at the opera places no one's morals under suspicion...
Next day, Homer Capehart, still smarting under Kerr's angry reply to "the midget" from Indiana, discovered that the Oklahoman had prudently revised the Congressional Record transcript to read that Ike had no "fiscal brains." That, said Capehart, shows exactly what "kind of gentleman" Bob Kerr is. Then Capehart did a doubletake on another Kerr line in the Congressional Record from the previous day's debate. Kerr: "I do not say that the President has no brains at all. I reserve that broad and sweeping accusation for some of my cherished colleagues in this body...
...State must take full responsibility for the nature and scope of any exceptions to it. The newsmen objected to Dulles' proposed limitation on the size of the group because it ignored "technological" changes since the war, i.e., the growth of TV reporting. Also, argued the Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript-Telegram's William Dwight, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, "economic factors" provide a built-in limitation on the number of correspondents in China. Probable outcome: six-month visas for 20 to 35 newsmen...
...budget "hysteria." In the budget debate's first round, said Lawrence, the press generally misinterpreted or overplayed Treasury Secretary Humphrey's celebrated press conference warning of a depression "that will curl your hair" unless the 1958 budget were drastically reduced. Columnist Lawrence, after studying the press conference transcript, pointed out that too many news stories had failed to bring out that Humphrey was referring not to the current budget but to the consequences of continued high spending and high taxation "over a long period of time...
When, on the last day of November, 1849, Bostonians read the "Evening Transcript" headlines proclaiming the "Supposed Discovery of Dr. Parkman's Body! Horrible Suspicions!! Arrest of Prof. J. W. Webster!," they had every reason to be especially shocked. For Dr. George Parkman was one of Boston's leading citizens, and John White Webster was Erving Professor of Chemistry and Minerology at Harvard...