Word: herald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weight of the Navy's own evidence seemed to indicate that the admirals might have been indulging in the ancient game of fanning the breeze. Navy censors passed a less cheery opinion in a dispatch from Stanley Woodward, burly, globe-trotting sports editor of the New York Herald Tribune: "There is no use denying the fact that damage by Kamikazes to units of the fleet has been much more severe than the people at home believe...
Somehow the job was done. The New York Herald Tribune's Paris edition was no longer alone in its field. And another little piece in Dolly Thackrey's dream had been fitted into place...
When Rhapsody in Blue was first played -with young Composer George Gershwin at the piano and Paul Whiteman's big, brassy band shattering the serenity of Manhattan's Aeolian Hall-neither audience nor critics liked their first taste of concert jazz. The Herald Tribune objected to its "complete lifelessness." Most audiences, if not critics, have changed their tune in the 21 years since then...
...York Herald Tribune scowled at the churchmen's "naiveté, not to say . . . lack of information." Captain James Vest of New Albany, Ind., a wounded veteran of Bataan, said flatly: "Those ministers . . . didn't see what the Japs did to the Filipinos and the natives of New Guinea. They don't know what the hell the score...
...everywhere. Their own 40,000-word report on their 40,000-mile travels was tart and sensible. Overall impression : facts are going to have as hard a time as ever getting around after the war. The traveling threesome, representing the American Society of Newspaper Editors, were the New York Herald Tribune's kindly, pipe-chewing Wilbur Forrest, Columbia University's owlish, gadabout Carl Ackerman, the Atlanta Constitution's nervous, nimble Editor Ralph McGill. Outstanding findings...