Word: herald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over, women 5 ft. 10 in.), met in Chicago, filed their annual pleas for longer Pullman berths and higher telephone booths, crowned Marie Van Leuren, 6 ft. 1½ in., as "Queen of Height, 1948" (see cut). ¶An ad in the Miami Herald said: "Unborn child for adoption. Call 5-4955." ¶Washington's only legitimate theater, the National, closed its doors. Actors Equity Association had forbidden its members to play there after Aug. 1 unless the theater lifted its ban against selling seats to Negroes. The National refused. It will reopen next month as a movie house...
...bought both the Herald and the Times, and combined them into a round-the-clock daily. They had been losing $1,500,000 a year; the Times-Herald now makes a good $1,000,000 a year...
When she died last week, the veterans of her staff went around with tears in their eyes. And the Times-Herald's Executive Managing Editor Michael Flynn, who survived all 18 years of her career, spoke the words that many newsmen could well repeat: "She was a hell of a sight better newspaperman than...
Married. Whitelaw Reid, 34, vice president and third-generation editor of the family-owned New York Herald Tribune; and Joan Brandon, 18, Barnard College student, daughter of the Tribune's youth page editor; in Purchase...
Died. Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson, 63, publisher of the Washington Times-Herald; of a heart ailment; in Upper Marlboro, Md. (see PRESS...