Word: herald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discussing the shortcomings of the Truman statement, the New York Herald Tribune put its finger on the biggest: "Mr. Truman might have said that the U.S. wanted a strong China and was most determined in its opposition to the Russian desire for a weak China. There seems to be no advantage to be gained from reticence on such subjects...
This week the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune had its second birthday. A little over two years ago, when Geoffrey Parsons Jr. arrived in Paris to edit it, the paper had ceased to exist. The fabled Old Paris Herald, eccentric foster child of the New York Herald Tribune, had died when Paris fell four years before. Parsons didn't even try to restore its old ways. His orders were to make it better. Last week the European Herald Tribune looked even more like its clean-columned New York parent than young Geoff Parsons looks like...
Alcoholic History. Le New York, as Frenchmen had called the prewar Herald Tribune, was always better to read about than to read. Its roster of alumni scans like a Who's Who of U.S. journalists abroad. The staff was an odd mixture of serious newsmen who liked to work in Paris and assorted spirits working briefly and indifferently for a grubstake. In the years between wars, young reporters jumped at the ill-paid chance to make the Herald part of their journalistic and alcoholic history...
...most of the Herald's profits came from its fat German and Italian shipping and resort advertising, and the Paris edition shamelessly toadied to the Nazis and Fascists-while its New York superiors were stoutly antitotalitarian. Newsmen might complain or quit, but its late editor, Laurence Hills, could always find enough reporters on the town to fill the gaps. Finally, in 1939, Hills began to write scathing frontpage, anti-Hitler editorials. Expatriate Americans were heading for home, and the Herald's 35,000 circulation plummeted to less than 10,000. On June 12, 1940, Managing Editor Eric Hawkins...
Evening tabulations show that the Traveler leads, with a sales volume 12 times greater than that of the Christian Science Monitor. News generally seems to be of secondary importance, for newsstand vendors attribute the superiority of the Herald to the feature drawing attraction of "Terry and the Pirates...