Word: herald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editorialists were in a dilemma; they did not want to argue that the President was indispensable, but they thought he should be taken to task. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "He gave many of his countrymen a slightly nervous afternoon. . . . While we all like and admire high officials who do not think that their own necks are the most important things in the world, the hard fact remains that those necks very often...
Technicians. A spokesman for Japanese civilians in China was suave Viscount Hisaakira Kano, an executive of the once powerful Yokohama Specie Bank and a leading carpetbagger of the late Co-Prosperity Sphere. In Peiping he talked to the New York Herald Tribune's A. T. Steele...
...York Herald Tribune's caustic composer-critic Virgil Thomson went all out last week. He had just heard, he wrote, a voice "with a beauty that is unmatched among the sopranos of this country." The accolade went not to one of the seven singers making their debuts this season, but to bosomy Yugoslav Zinka Milanov, singing Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni for about the 20th time. Just five days earlier, another Trib critic had panned her. Wrote he: "[Her] decrease in avoirdupois [has] brought with it a disturbing lessening of her powers...
...admitted, nor has anyone from such left-of-center papers as the Chicago Sun and Times, the New York Post and PM. One blackball is enough. The bureau chiefs of A.P., U.P. (U.P.'s Lyle Wilson, Gridiron's outgoing president, ran the dinner), New York Times and Herald Tribune are invariably invited to join...
...twin, David Whitmire, is assistant publisher of the Los Angeles Herald & Express...