Word: herald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prospect. In Mexico City, the Herald printed a want ad: "Secretary. Wants position. No bad habits. Willing to learn...
...last fall ex-Trustbuster Thurman Arnold posed a problem to Helen Rogers Reid, mistress of the New York Herald Tribune. Arnold was representing a group of State Department employees who had been fired-on unspecified charges-in the Government's loyalty investigation. Arnold thought that an important question of civil rights was at stake. Said Mrs. Reid: "Why not get in touch with Bert Andrews...
Instead of turning the story over to others in his 15-man Washington bureau, Chief Andrews set to digging it out himself. His dispassionate study of the case of "Mr. Blank" filled six columns of the Herald Tribune on Nov. 2. Factual as a cookie recipe, it struck a more telling blow for liberty than any arm-waving leftist could have landed, and it caused a change in State Department policy...
...hand. A Washington assignment offers subtle temptations: if a reporter is not careful he may turn into a pundit, or a cocktail-swigging socialite, or become a power behind some politician's throne. Such lures have left Andrews cold. In Albany and way points (Sacramento, Chicago, the Paris Herald, and Manhattan), he learned to keep his nose for news clean, and his news sources at arm's length...
Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: "If Mr. Britten's work came out scarcely in English, vocally loud from beginning to end and decorated in a manner both ugly and anachronistic, it also came through the ordeal with its music still alive and its human drama still touching...