Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Butte, Mont. may have a book all to itself but why should anyone from there be happy about it? Natives from the "World's Richest Hill" have a good reason to be damn good and mad at the editors of TIME for the disparaging remarks cast upon their fair city when you referred to it as a wench, dissipated and uncorseted. Either term used singularly and in the mildest sense surely borders on infamy...
...ordered State police to investigate, prevent further outbreaks. He appointed a committee of Catholics, Protestants and Jews to advise him on the problem. And when PM gleefully referred to Boston as a city "where the people talk only to Beichman but Beichman can't talk to the Gov.," fair-minded Governor Saltonstall backtracked some more. He granted Reporter Beichman a 15-minute interview which began with a "Glad to see you," and included the admission "I had a rude awakening on Monday...
Francis Welch Crowninshield is a Boston Brahmin who was born in Paris of German forebears (von Kronenscheldt) and who lives in Manhattan. Says he, "I am a poor but good Crowninshield." His father was a mural painter of independent means. As editor of the late, lamented Vanity Fair Crownie made it a lively canapé-service of contemporary taste, with succulent tidbits of Noel Coward, Colette, Dorothy Parker, Ring Lardner, Harold Nicolson, Edmund Wilson...
Crowninshield's persistent plumping for modern art in Vanity Fair at first alarmed Publisher Condé Nast and a good section of his office force. Nast later wrote, in an office memorandum: ". . . In time, however . . . we derived a very considerable benefit from having published such. In fact, a portfolio of our prints . . . scored so great a success that we netted a handsome profit...
...Sicily The Tablet, official weekly of the Diocese of Brooklyn, fired the opening shot: "In looking over the list of officials being sent to guide, if not to rule, an overwhelmingly Catholic country like Italy, we note the absence of practicing Catholics. . . . It would seem not only practical and fair, but intelligent and profitable, for the United States to send some representatives who understand the religion . . . of those whom they are to direct...