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Child of Edison. He was enforcing three musical bans at once-old bans against television and frequency modulation radio stations (which were not allowed to share standard broadcasts of music), and a brand new and bigger ban against the record and transcription business. He had gone to Washington to let the House Education and Labor Committee ask him why he had done it. He beamed happily, thumbs in suspenders (see cut), over having beaten the rap in a Chicago federal court test of the Lea Act-a piece of legislation which had been written for the specific purpose of bringing...
...portrayal of the well-to-do semi-literary people who inhabit New York. Gregory Peek, John Garfield, Dorothy McGurie, and Celeste Holm are always completely aware of what is in the characters they are pretending to be. Perhaps they are a little too sensitive to the picture's peculiar brand of hate, but to them it is a casual frequenter of homes and business offices rather than a satanie mouster...
...printed the letter rather than behave like an editor of Pravda, who certainly wouldn't. Thus the London Times had published two such letters (signed "S. Marshak, Ulitsa Chkalova 14/16, Apt. 113, Moscow") without comment or caveat. The editors were over a barrel: they could neither prove nor brand the letters an outright forgery...
Foppish & Fussed-Over. Musorgsky was, wrote Composer Alexander Borodin on first meeting him, "quite boyish, very elegant, the very picture of an officer: brand-new, close-fitting uniform . . . sleek pomaded hair, nails as if carved . . . refined, aristocratic manners, conversation . . . sprinkled with French phrases, rath er affected . . . some traces of foppishness. . . . The ladies made a fuss over him. He sat at the piano and, coquettishly throwing up his hands, played . . . very sweetly and gracefully, while the circle around him buzzed . . . 'charmant, delicieux...
Shaw, never a systematic nor an original thinker, preached socialism-but a brand so condescending and aristocratic that both Hyde Park revolutionists and solid trade unionists regarded him as an interloper. His bureaucratic socialism was a mixture of the Enlightened Gentleman and the Robot Superman. His heated exposes of the conditions of England's workers were followed by sneering gibes at their stupidity (the "Yahoos," he called them). He attacked capitalism, but portrayed capitalists so sympathetically that the readers of his plays found the attack indistinguishable from a defense...