Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...awards (see THEATER). George Jean Nathan (Journal-American and other Hearst papers), grumpy granddaddy of the critics, was heard to mumble something to the effect that it was "humiliating" to have to mingle with actors. But Colleague Richard Watts Jr. (Post Home News) confessed that this was not the whole story of how the critics really feel: "The melancholy truth is that most of them don't really like each other...
...Whitney's twelfth annual mixed exhibition of contemporary U.S. sculpture and watercolors. On the whole, the watercolors had more quality than the stone, steel, wood and bronze figures on display. But if only because it was less familiar, sculpture stole the show...
...first day of the strike, 18 students were arrested, 17 for disorderly conduct and one for assaulting a policeman, and that seemed to be about all that had been accomplished at C.C.N.Y. When some C.C.N.Y. critics muttered that the whole affair had been inspired by Communists, both the college and Strike Leader William Fortunato, president of the Student Council, denied it. But nobody denied that it was hard to keep the Commies from taking the strike over. For one thing, a representative of the Civil Rights Congress, labeled subversive by Attorney
...presidents were awaiting the customary (up to 50%) bonus on their $35,000 to $45,000 salaries. No, said Avery, there would be no bonus. Instead, the same amount would be given as a salary increase. Said Vice President Charles M. Odorizzi: "We'd have to stay a whole year to collect; it was a dodge to make sure he had us where he wanted...
...fattening its own assassin. The nation's 50 TV stations (mostly supported by radio) lost $15 million in 1948. While it was being suckled by radio, TV was taking a larger & larger share of radio's advertising. Despite the record revenue for the industry as a whole, one out of every four radio stations showed a loss last year. Nearly half of the 340 stations licensed in 1948 failed to break even. Things looked even worse for 1949. Warned Coy: "Make no mistake about it -television is here and here to stay . . . It is a new force unloosed...