Word: herald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neighbors quarrel more than two on Manhattan's Herald Square, Macy's and Gimbels. Last week, with a buyers' market on the horizon, they were at it again, harder than ever...
...limited funds, unlimited nerve, and a hopeful hunch that a daily paper (American plan) might be made to pay in postwar Italy. They remembered how many a U.S. newsman, stranded abroad after World War I, had spent carefree years working on the Paris edition of the New York Herald, and had never been the same since. Pooling their assets, the three G.I.s took a deep breath and plunged into business as the Rome Daily American...
...American's only English-language competition is the Paris Herald Tribune, which arrives with two-day-old news, and the British Army's stodgy Union Jack. To expatriate Americans the American is a daily breath of home, but to Italian readers, reared on Fascist journalism, it is sometimes baffling. Once it ran a letter from a U.S. reader suggesting that the Colosseum be razed and a children's play center put up in its place. Next day Italian tempers exploded in the press and radio. An American editor had to go on the air and explain that...
...week's end, the row was on. Objected Dr. Rolla E. Dyer, director of the National Institute of Health (in Cissie Patterson's Washington Times-Herald): "There is less & less reason every year for fear of old age. ... It is silly to talk about 'hopeless' [diseases] in these times." Cried Monsignor Robert E. McCormick, presiding judge of the ecclesiastical tribunal in New York's Catholic Archdiocese: "Anti-God, unAmerican, and a menace to veterans...
Fred Gimbel sent Macy's Straus a direct challenge. He offered to bet $25,000, $50,000 "or any amount you care to name" (with the winnings to go to charity) that Macy's could not disprove his claim to the underselling championship of Herald Square. At Macy's, where they have a policy against opening books and telling Gimbals, there were no takers...