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...HAVE to be a careful operator to keep a newspaper solvent these days, and Harold Clancy, the chief executive of the Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation, has provided us the textbook case of neglect. Clancy spent so much time over the last decade in a challenge before the Federal Communications Commission trying to save the corporation's lucrative subsidiary, WHDH-TV, that he let the Herald Traveler slip into organizational disarray. Now, having lost the battle before the FCC, he has been forced to sell the Traveler to the Hearst Corporation, owner of the Boston Record American; a decade's inattention...
...inside information. The Globe's management, still gasping at the relatively paltry $8.5 million price tag paid for the Traveler and its immense mechanical plant, mustered the good-naturedness to run a front-page editorial welcoming their new competitor. The Herald Traveler and Record American's publisher, Harold Kern, welcomed his paper into existence--also on the front page--with a four paragraph blurb reminiscent of copy composed by a disenfranchised...
...might never have learned of Lavelle's raids had not an Air Force sergeant in Viet Nam involved in falsifying the reports become troubled when his immediate commanding officer quipped that even the President did not know what the fighter-bombers were doing. The sergeant wrote Iowa Senator Harold Hughes "to inform you of what is happening and to find out if this falsification of classified documents is legal and proper." Hughes suspected not, and had a copy of the letter hand-carried to Air Force Chief of Staff General John Ryan on March 8. Within 24 hours Ryan...
...working for more than 40 hours in charge of an aid station at the city's Central High School, Mrs. Jean Gatch wept at the donation of clothing from an Indian woman, who explained that the garments had belonged to the baby she had lost in the flood. Harold Pirnes, a Rapid City post office employee, and his wife returned from a vacation in North Carolina, driving nonstop for 26 hours, to get back and help...
...blocks of asphalt and concrete as large as the walls of a house were strewn across the highway. Boulders lay haphazardly, and bridge structures were ripped and dangling. It was like nothing I've ever smelled before and hope to God I never do again." Another Journal reporter, Harold Higgins, stood on a bridge and watched a 30-foot house trailer "riding a wave like a surfboard." A woman reported "a Volkswagen floating down the street with the people hanging on and screaming for help...