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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Tolerantly, the Courier-Journal printed Pearson's windy demurral as a full-page ad, free of charge. But last week the Courier-Journal also spoke its mind about Pearson's conceptions of accuracy: "The essential question which Pearson missed [is whether] the 'Merry-Go-Round,' which assaults many community and individual reputations, [is] based on sound and careful reporting . . . and [presents] its material fairly ... To take undocumented personal recollections and use them as [official] statistics is journalistic irresponsibility...
Squeeze Play. In a 23-page complaint, McGrath ticked off the defendants' alleged sins against free trade. They control 15 of the 32 theaters in New York, seven out of nine in Chicago, two out of three in Detroit, and all the houses in Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. With almost all the tryout towns under their thumb, said the complaint, the Shuberts have forced producers to rent Shubert-controlled theaters in New York by threatening to bar them from out-of-town houses. And when producers take successful shows on the road, it was charged...
...introspective to give a clear account of action, and too intellectual to understand the urgent, passionate movements of the human heart, bores the reader into indifference. An effective criticism of the book and evidence of one character's sound common sense appears on the next-to-last page: "Rachel has been trying to get me to stop writing. But I have some more to put down. Is this the second day? The third day? I have been writing steadily. There is a kind of fog at the edges of my field of vision . . ." Author Hersey would have been well...
...full text of her letter appears on page...
When powerful Gossipist Hedda Hopper chatters to her 30 million newspaper readers, Hollywood's biggest bigwigs fear to talk back. Turning to its daily trade papers on Valentine's Day last week, Hollywood gawked at two full-page ads. Neatly encircled by a heart, the ads carried a rudely unsentimental message for Hedda from Actress Joan Bennett, wife of Producer Walter (Joan of Arc) Wanger...