Word: herald
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Columnist Bill Gold, of the Washington Post and Times Herald, recently reported that he had discovered an unusual system of reading TIME which is used by Charles E. Randall of McLean...
Dirty Pictures. Last week the feud erupted again before a Washington hearing of the Federal Communications Commission, considering applications for a Boston TV franchise. One of the applicants was the Boston Herald-Traveler's station WHDH; another was Massachusetts Bay Telecasters. in which Capp is both a small stockholder (less than 2%) and co-chairman of the proposed station's Public Affairs Committee. Lawyers for WHDH challenged Capp's fitness on the ground that he draws dirty pictures: therefore, he and his associates (including Novelist J. P. Marquand and Atlantic Monthly Editor Edward Weeks) should...
Moving President H. B. Nicholson up to board chairman. Bob Woodruff reached outside the company for a new president to replace himself as chief executive officer. His choice: William E. Robinson, 54, the smart, hard-driving and affable ex-publisher of the New York Herald Tribune and chairman of Robinson-Hannagan Associates, which handles Coke's public relations. Bill Robinson, an old friend and golfing companion of Woodruff's, knows his way around in politics as well as business. An early Eisenhower backer, he introduced Ike to the Augusta National Golf Club, helped convince Ike that he could...
...native of Providence, Bill Robinson graduated from New York University, did so well as the New York World-Telegram local ad manager that the Hearst chain grabbed him, made him assistant general manager. In 1936 the New York Herald Tribune hired him away as ad manager, eventually made him executive vice president and publisher. A year ago, after the death of Steve Hannagan, Robinson left the Trib to boss the publicity agency. He has resigned from Robinson-Hannagan, but the firm will continue to handle Coke's public relations...
There has come to my attention a copy of a letter addressed to you from Herbert A. Philbrick, erstwhile informant for the FBI and currently cloak-and-dagger columnist for the New York Herald-Tribune Syndicate. . . The Philbrick letter, stylistically, appears to be irony, though with somewhat less deft a touch than one likes to see. This is said not by way of criticism--even Swift produced some lemons in his time--but as explanation of the possibility that I might have have misinterpreted Mr. Philbrick's intent. As it stands, the inferences appear to be two: (a) that because...