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Andrei Y. Vishinsky
3/31/47
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, the Soviet Vice Foreign Minister, told visiting newsmen the assets a good newspaperman must have: "Strong legs-first to catch the man he wants to interview, and secondly to run away from the man after he has printed it."
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Sir Thomas Beecham

 
7/22/46
Sir Thomas Beecham, explosively opinionated conductor of the London Philharmonic, returned in May from a U.S. tour, calling Hollywood "a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial."

Then he amended his opinion, allowing as how Hollywood was "the last word in triviality and morbidity."

Sir Thomas Beecham
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