Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Editor Hall's independence is his success. In 1910 Grover went to work as an editorialist on the Advertiser, started his career there by defending Alice Roosevelt Longworth's right to smoke cigarets. Editor of the Advertiser since 1926, Grover Hall won a Pulitzer Prize in 1928 for rousing attacks on racial and religious intolerance...
...Hearst papers last week these nostalgic lines appeared in an unsigned column, hi the News. Most readers of the Hearst press, who know that In the News is written by the Old Man himself (TIME, March 18), suspected that he was the author of A Spanish Song. They were right. Though he has never before published any poetry, Publisher Hearst, now 77, admitted last week that he has "frequently written what might be called verse," that he jotted down A Spanish Song in 1934 during an automobile trip through Spain...
...including his own, and that his miscalled music is a gibberish of wrong notes. Gibberish or no, Arnold Schönberg's music is fearfully difficult to play. The main difficulty is to get all of Schönberg's wrong notes in the right places...
...dislike it, but to give it a fair chance. I would like to thank those who received Schönberg with an open mind. They are in the majority. . . . The others, well, they can't help it. And perhaps," added Stokowski amid more titters, "they are right...
...hearings got off to a rowdy start. As Chairman Coudert announced rules of procedure, up popped a square-jawed young man with a black patch over one eye. He was William G. Mulligan, counsel for the Teachers Union, chief target of Mr. Windels' investigation. Mr. Mulligan demanded the right to cross-examine witnesses, was finally ejected by two policemen. Then Mr. Windels introduced his star witness, a genial Brooklyn College English professor named Bernard David Nino Grebanier...