Word: herald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playwright Maxwell Anderson, who once bought advertising space in a newspaper to strike back at the critics who had panned his latest play (Truckline Café in 1946), explained in the New York Herald Tribune why the American theater has gone to pot: "Moving pictures offer a cheap substitute; wars have damaged our morals, our manners and our taste; our whole western civilization grows doubtful of itself . . . But," he added, nursing his old wounds, "when a playwright [is] . . . publicly whipped, flayed alive, drawn, quartered . . . by every theatrical commentator, that's an experience that can drive good playwrights as well...
First-day buyers got a neatly laid-out paper, a weak line of comics, Columnists Billy Rose and Tom Stokes, Edith Gwynn on Hollywood, a sport column by the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith-and no news to speak...
More enthusiastic, if less flattering and abrupt than the Record (headquarters of the vituperative Colonel Egan, who, incidentally, has not been heard from yet), the Boston Globe and Herald-Tribune, and the New York Times followed their first punches Monday with roundhouse fistfulls of laurels Tuesday...
Arthur Sampsan, erstwhile publicity director for the H.A.A. was tickled to death by the showing, and let his enthusiasm run for inches of newsprint. His analysis, from the Monday Herald, in part...
...from the coaching or the Crisler system that sprung Crimson runners around end time and time again for long gains; the "Michigan efficiency" is probably the key to the season as a whole. But the key to Saturday's score was more nearly found by Red Smith in his Herald Tribune story...