Word: herald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rumania, Surits looked out on the white sands of Copacabana Beach. Politely he said that it reminded him of Russia's Black Sea beaches. As soon as Brazilian Foreign Minister João Neves da Fontoura had loudly and lengthily denied his undiplomatic blurt to New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Joseph Newman ("Russia is the greatest danger to the world"), Surits presented his credentials at palm-shaded, swan-graced Palácio Itamaraty, the Foreign Office. Pint-sized Surits beamed at pint-sized Neves da Fontoura...
...delivers itself of such pearls as: "The bores and the bored whom Byron-called the 'two mighty tribes of society,' are still around and about. But diplomats, who are the best society, now follow Ruskin's advice and keep out of it." The Washington Times-Herald says that Farago's new venture is "causing much excitement and perking up of interest about blase Washington." But so far sales seem limited to the tight little trade along the world's Embassy Rows...
...Other winners: The Scranton Times, public service; Reporters William L. Laurence and Arnaldo Cortesi (New York Times), Homer Bigart (New York Herald Tribune), Edward A. Harris (St. Louis Post-Dispatch); Cartoonist Bruce Russell (Los Angeles Times). History: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s Age of Jackson. Biography: Linnie M. Wolfe's Son of the Wilderness. Play: Lindsay & Grouse's State of the Union. Music: Leo Sowerby's Canticle of the Sun. Novel and poem: no award...
...make way for it, Hearst's hustlebustle evening Herald-American last week dumped a "goofball" (sleeping pill) expose it had been running for weeks. As the new series developed, opposition editors sighed; baby-faced Harry Reutlinger, city editor of the Herald-American, was turning his journalistic cartwheels again. They had given up hoping he would fall on his face; but they still marveled at the razzle-dazzle that has pushed his paper (circ. 562,000) out in front of the competing Times and Jack Knight's Daily News...
...himself as the Chicago chief, burbled: "Just want to congratulate you! Anything my boys can do for you up here?" The flattered Texan spilled a detailed story of the capture. By the time the FBI got to the Texan to tell him not to tip off the newspapers, the Herald-American had the story on Page...