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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something like collective shame has grown and remained from those times. The worst thing that Hitler did to us-and he did much to us-was that he forced us into the shame of having to bear the name of German simultaneously with his henchmen. We dare not forget those things that people, for convenience's sake, like to forget. We dare not forget the Nurnberg laws, the Jewish star, the burning of synagogues, the deportation of Jews into foreign lands, misery and death. The gruesome thing about these events is not that they involved the fanaticism...
...longer the editorial," wrote Grimes, "the fewer the readers . . . It is much easier to write a long editorial on a single subject than two very short ones on two subjects...
Bostonians would hear pretty much the same kind of programs: Munch's devotion to the moderns is second only to Koussevitzky's. But they would find it a little harder to know the man than his music. Munch's easy assurance on the podium is matched by an often moody shyness away from...
...network, Goodman Ace cautiously hopes to escape the twin furies which pursued him in radio-Hooperatings ("the rating system is a $50,000 tail wagging a $50 million dog") and vice presidents ("the only morons in radio are in the offices"). He suspects that he and Jane talk too much on the first few shows: "I've got to force myself to let a few minutes go by without saying anything, but a silence always makes me uneasy." As for radio, Ace says: "I don't think we'll ever go back to it-unless some silly...
That Comedienne Channing is now heading a smash hit there can be little doubt; nevertheless, she is often the sole support of an ailing show. Where Blondes gets hold of a good thing, it suffers from Lorelei's belief that you can't have too much of it; even without a good thing, it follows the same general line...