Word: herald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening editions, which compete chiefly with Hearst's Herald-American, young Field stuck to the old formula: readers got the tabloid mixture as before, with the big play on crime, sex and sensation...
...Daily Herald. "The Pic" now in third place with a 4,734,000 circulation, manages to cram its pages with sex, invariably in the guise of deploring pornography and impropriety. Sample: when a schoolmaster and his 10-year-old girl pupils went off into the woods after watching a school sex-instruction film (he got three months in jail), the Pic devoted Page One to stills from the banned movie under the pious headline NOW PARENTS CAN JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES. Last week readers were treated to a leering exclusive, CONFESSIONS OF A FAKE DOCTOR, which the paper printed just...
...last month,* puzzled moviemen ponder such possible causes as the weather, the crops and the local bingo games. Last week a fledgling producer, Novelist Polan (There Goes Lona Henry) Banks, offered a fresher theory: Hollywood has been underestimating the power of a woman. Banks told the Motion Picture Herald...
After trying for more than a year to get a staff man permanently accredited to Moscow, the New York Herald Tribune (circ. 340,430) finally managed to do it in 1947, thanks to Tourist Harold Stassen...
...promised that there would be no trouble getting a re-entry permit. (Until the regulations were changed last spring, such a permit had been automatically issued with the exit visa.) But when Newman tried to return to Moscow three months ago, he found the door shut. Last week the Herald Tribune reluctantly announced the closing of its vacant Russian office. That left just five U.S. correspondents in Moscow,* about half the number that was there when Reporter Newman arrived...