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...plump Indian soprano who bills herself as Princess Pakanli of the Chickasaw tribe, brought suit against him for $30,000, claiming that he encouraged her to prepare for leading roles, then refused to let her perform unless she paid him a guarantee of $5,500. Similar rumors kept popping. Critic Glenn Dillard Gunn of the Herald & Examiner openly asserted that Ethel Leginska had paid for the production of her opera, Gale. Soprano Lola Fletcher admitted privately that she had to pay $125 to sing Musetta in La Boheme...
Explanation: an unrevealed number of copies of the Book Review had been printed when Someone Higher Up saw what sample of Printer Thomas' work had been chosen to illustrate the review of his biography; what quotation Critic Titterton, who is literary adviser for prim National Broadcasting Co., had picked to reveal Napoleon's character. Choosing swiftly between typography and taste, the Higher Up ordered the presses stopped at once. All copies of the Book Review already printed were destroyed. Since it was too late for costly re-plating, printers were ordered to scratch out the offending line...
...thought it funny, however, to find in the Sun critic's item the same word misspelled two or three lines down. That was a typographical error...
...students here who pass for diligent hear far more lecturing than I. Cogswell hears 8 courses daily." We see George Bancroft, fresh from college, sent by the Harvard Corporation for three years' study in Germany in order to become, as President Kirkland expressed it, "an accomplished philologian and biblical critic, able to expound and defend the Revelation of God." Bancroft was not so uncritically enthusiastic as his predecessors had been. Ticknor had written that there was more "absolute learning in Germany than in all the rest of the world besides." But Bancroft was too fastidious to find the unkempt German...
Leading a group of outraged citizens was Major General Amos A. Fries, one-time head of the Chemical Warfare Service, now an indignant critic of Washington's Board of Education and of School Superintendent Frank W. Ballou. Told that a study of Russia might turn children against Communism, he retorted, "Why not teach children about robbery, murder?", proposed that a committee pass on a long list of high school textbooks...