Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a fast, toothy grin, as "both a saint and a devil." Last year, his frothy, obstetrical opera Les Mamelles de Tirésias -in which one character changes sex on stage and another litters the footboards with a good share of his 40,000 babies-created the noisiest scandal in Paris since the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Like the Rite, however, it is still going strong...
...Date with Judy, starring Jane Powell and Wallace Beery, is an innocent little lollipop of a cinemusical. Rachel, which opened late in the month and netted top grosses for the last two weeks, is a pretty good historical drama whose star, Robert Mitchum, was recently arrested in a marijuana scandal. The critics were lukewarm to Good Sam, but it flourished, regardless. The Babe Ruth Story was thoroughly panned, but it profited from the wide public interest in Ruth's death. Sorry, Wrong Number and Rope, greeted with critics' cheers, rated ninth and eleventh...
...when a Negro pilot, member of a squadron that Washington has created merely to pacify pro-Negro opinion, is beaten up by a white colonel. The affair has nothing to do with racial prejudice, but before the next day is out it has ballooned into a shocking black & white scandal. Angry Negro officers, hitherto amenable to unofficial discriminatory rules, decide that this is the moment to claim their right to membership in the "restricted" officers' club. Knowing the effect this will have on white personnel, Gus Beale orders MPs to keep the Negroes out. Soon the U.S. press...
What news isn't of "legitimate public interest"? No newsman could give a final answer. The New York Times is decently mum on many a scandal that the hard-eyed New York Daily News delights to mock and maul. In the current American Mercury, Chicago Lawyer Mitchell Dawson tries to fix the legal boundary between privacy and the press. Actually, says he, the right of privacy is neither ancient nor inalienable. It was formulated no longer ago than 1890, by Louis Brandeis, later Supreme Court Justice, and his law partner, Samuel D. Warren, in a magazine article prompted...
...famous Father Orr of Cambridge, Mass. . . . who was always called 'Billy,' [was once] asked, 'What is your specialty?' Billy hesitated an instant and then, in the rich brogue which made him famous, replied: 'My specialty is raising money for church purposes without giving scandal...