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...PAPER: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE by Richard Kluger. Horace Greeley, Karl Marx and Tom Wolfe all worked for the Trib; another former employee recalls more than a century of colorful news and newsmakers...
...Frederik Greeley Crocker Award--given to a Harvard letterman for his initiative, perseverance, courage and selflessness--was presented to outgoing Captain Collins...
...author begins where the Tribune did, with Horace Greeley, a self- educated printer and "one of the nation's truly fabulous characters." Contrary to popular belief, Greeley never said "Go West, young man." He uttered a sentiment along those lines that was later paraphrased into immortality. But Greeley did found the Tribune in 1841; his thundering editorials against the spread of slavery helped set the climate for the Civil War; he was a prime mover in the creation of the Republican Party. Greeley's death in 1872 might easily have been followed by that of his now leaderless Tribune...
...nothing new for private donors to pitch in for public education. Just last week, the Rev. Andrew Greeley, best-selling author of novels like Ascent Into Hell, announced his plan to set up a $1 million fund to assist Catholic schools in Chicago in which minorities constitute at least half the enrollment. But the practice of taking responsibility for the future of entire graduating classes of schools and even of school systems is a new idea, one that appears to be gaining support around the country. Responding in part to sharp cutbacks in federal funding for student aid, benefactors from...
...Rosenthal's illustrious predecessors as editor of a New York newspaper was Horace Greeley of the Tribune, which no longer exists. It was an affectation of Greeley's to pluralize as the English do when a singular word has a plural context, as in "the government are concerned." Once Greeley impatiently cabled one of his correspondents, "Are there any news?" Back came the answer: "Sorry, not a single new." That unsung correspondent may only have intended a funny reply, but he appears to have had a firm grip on what needs to be reported...