Word: herald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lucky Star. In Panama City, Tomas Gabriel Duque, publisher of the Star & Herald, took a chance at a lottery, got a prize: a subscription to the Star & Herald...
When his war job was finished, Max Ways became a writer for TIME's new International section. This return to his trade was probably as inevitable as his original decision to become a journalist. His father, Max Ways Sr., city editor of the Baltimore Herald (he gave H. L. Mencken his first reporting job), had advised against it. Said he, with a newsman's directness: "I don't want to influence your decision, but if you ever grow up to be a newspaperman I'll strangle you with my bare hands...
Westward Ho. Thus encouraged, the brothers branched out: to St. Paul (the Pioneer Press and Dispatch), to Duluth (the News-Tribune and Herald), the Dakotas (Aberdeen and Grand Forks) and the West Coast. They own 49% of the prosperous Seattle Times, and for one year ran the San Francisco Chronicle...
...about their brand-new scheme for destroying enemy tanks, etc. But once, at 3 a.m., when Mrs. Marshall had patiently insisted that she be allowed to take the message, the voice at the other end snapped indignantly: "Yes, I'll give you the message. This is the Times-Herald, and when the General wakes up you can tell him the War Department is on fire" (it was, but just a small blaze...
Foremost of the local stations carrying the broadcast is the Herald-Traveler's WHDH, operating at 850 kilocycles. In the New York City area, WLIB in Brooklyn will feature the game, according to William J. Bingham '16, director of Physical Education and Athletics. New Haven's WNHC and the Yale Network will keep stay-at-home Bulldog enthusiasts well-informed of the struggle with a play-by-play description of this latest in a venerable series of Harvard-Yale football battles...