Word: herald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week two stubborn men came to the parting of the ways. Out as a Hearst editor went rough, tough Lou Ruppel, ex-captain of Marines (TIME, Jan. 15). He had tried to give Hearst's Chicago Herald American the same rowdy tone he had given the tabloid Chicago Times before the war. But the cold, tired old voice that came over the telephone from San Simeon was not pleased, and out blew...
What should you call people who live in Russia? The New York Herald Tribune last week found that the answer was a little complicated. A Tribman went to see Secretary Pavel I. Fedosimov of the Soviet Consulate, and asked: Should his people be called Russians? Not collectively, said Mr. Fedosimov, for they include 149 other nationalities...
News tickers clattered out headline-making leads. Example (by the Associated Press): "President Truman notified Congress today that the $42,000,000,000 . . . should, in the main, be written off the books." A consequent headline (in the New York Herald Tribune]: PRESIDENT BIDS CONGRESS CANCEL LEND-LEASE DEBTS...
Oldtime Vienna correspondents knew sharp-featured George Eric Rowe Gedye (rhymes with steady) as a cool little Englishman, always reserved and distantly polite, who could write with startling passion of his love (Austria) and his hate (the Nazis). Last week they caught the Gedye touch in London Daily Herald pieces pleading that unless the Allies acted, Vienna would starve within 30 days...
Said by some to herald an interlocking of all colleges and their graduate schools, the Seven Year Plan has several disadvantages. Instead of escaping the restrictions of concentration, the student merely postpones them to a later, perhaps loss convenient time. Two degrees hang in the balance. The Seven Year student misses his Senior Year, perhaps the most important one for social and extra-curricular activities