Word: downs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Now I don't say all of these things are bad. What I do deplore, however, is that growing emphasis on these devices tends to overshadow the editorial integrity of a magazine. In many instances, it looks to me from the outside as though the business office and the...
Some newspaper editors like the idea. "I think it's an intelligent device for distributing news releases and handouts from commercial concerns," said the Los Angeles Mirror-News' managing editor, Ed Murray. "A machine like this doesn't commit you to use the stuff, and I think...
But not all editors share Murray's view. Said Taylor Trumbo, managing editor of the Los Angeles Times: "Our main objection to such a service is that it would cut down on the personal planting of news releases. We are visited by any number of planters, and we get...
The concerto recalled, among other things, that at 39, Isaac Stern is not only one of the world's great violinists but one of the U.S.'s fastest-moving, farthest roving musicians. He often talks of slowing down to give some time to teaching, but he is now...
Shy, scholarly George Marek got the music habit early. The son of a Viennese dentist, he haunted the Vienna Opera as a child, later became a regular standee at the Metropolitan Opera after his parents sent him to the U.S. at the age of 17 to make his fortune. For...