Word: herald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...85th birthday, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch was nearly buried by congratulations, including a two-page frappé of well-wishes whipped up by the New York Herald Tribune. Sample message (from Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano): "My humble toast to the greatest strength, Wisdom." Baruch himself was patiently holding off newsmen, seeking gems of sagacity. Said he: "To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." One reporter insistently pressed Baruch for the lowdown on where the world is headed. Grinned the sage of Hobcaw Barony: "I don't know." The reporter expressed amazement. Advised Veteran Pundit...
...Chicago, and Washington, D.C., where it toured, and back home in Manhattan, audiences have hailed Skin ever since. Cried the New York Times's persnickety Brooks Atkinson, dean of Broadway's critics, "Perfect.'' Rejoiced the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Perhaps even the theater will survive.'' Thornton Wilder's wild and wise romp is now fast making up the $73,000 deficit incurred by Salute. Best news of all: Salute should be completely out of the red after the U.S. at large gets its chance to see The Skin of Our Teeth...
Cheaper by the Dozen. In Dallas, after the Times Herald quoted Mrs. Clara Margerum as saying she wanted to rent a house for a reunion with her twelve children, she received 93 offers, one a proposal of marriage from a suitor who wanted to claim her children as income tax exemptions...
...News of the World (circ. 7,971,000) and its weekly rivals are filled with lurid accounts of court reports of crimes, engulfing such thoughtful, first-rate weekly newspapers as the Sunday Times or Observer, which together have a circulation of only slightly over a million. Observed New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond, visiting in London last week: "We Americans often think the British press neglects America . . . Most British mass circulation newspapers neglect what is important about Britain [in] a sensational, restless hodgepodge of trash and trivia...
...still two classes: the educated and the uneducated. The educated present Britain's face to the world as a nation of people who are readers of the Times, Telegraph and Guardian. The uneducated present no face to the world because their faces are buried in the Mirror, Sketch, Herald, and all the other popular papers...