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...Times muffed its last real chance when the Scripps brothers let Editor Bill Townes quit because they were unwilling to back up his robust, crusading news policy (TIME, March 15, 1948). It was the same policy that E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, grandfather of Ed and Jim, had used to build his chains. Townes had boosted circulation to 47,077; by last week it had slumped back to 40,500, and local advertisers were throwing their busi ness to the rival News-Tribune, the city's only other daily (circ...
...only incongruous character. His costume, a combination of long underwear and a green and pink midriff, seemed to clash with everything in sight. Nor did he show the skill at stylization of the other characters, but remained pompously planted throughout most of the production. His tenor voice was robust, however, and, with a few exceptions in the Upper register, assured...
From time to time, his voice broke. Again & again the tall (6 ft.), robust man broke into tears, wiping his face with his handkerchief. "Believe me," he sobbed, "I am ashamed to beg for mercy. Give me a chance to correct my errors . . . Never in Bulgaria's history was there so much religious freedom as now . . . Christians and Communists are two brothers who have bypassed each other, but they will find each other some...
...less than two years, Henry Koerner had become one of the most important and controversial figures in U.S. art* His allegories of postwar Germany and the U.S. had the robust realism of a modern Bruegel and often the satiric bite of Hieronymus Bosch. His colors might range from the muddy to the garish, and his compositions might tend to be needlessly cluttered, but each painting told a story and usually made it stick. Says Koerner: "Telling a thought-out story is the only way, by God, to inject life into this cadaver of modern...
...Doyles were Roman Catholics, and Arthur was sent to Britain's most famous Jesuit public school, Stonyhurst. He was imposingly robust: on one festive occasion he and three other Stonyhurst boys, barely in their teens, feudally consumed "two turkeys, one very large goose, two chickens, one large ham . . . two large sausages, seven boxes of sardines, one of lobster, a plate full of tarts . . . seven pots of jam . . . five bottles of sherry, five of port, one of claret and two of raspberry . . . We had also two bottles of pickles." Hellfire was the only thing that was ever known to scare...