Word: herald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago Daily News, Detroit Free Press, Akron Beacon Journal, Miami Herald) got word that he will be the first recipient of the La Prensa Prize for American Friendship. The award, established in 1950 by Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, Buenos Aires' exiled publisher of La Prensa, will be made in Rio de Janeiro next month to honor Publisher Knight's "courageous leadership in fighting for press freedom" throughout the Americas...
...most profitable big daily paper started in the U.S. in the last 20 years. A child of the famed Patterson-McCormick publishing dynasty, she is, nevertheless, cut from different cloth than her late, copper-haired, copper-tongued aunt, Cissy Patterson, who, as boss of the Washington Times-Herald, once confessed: "The trouble with me is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch...
...Americans, will not talk to the Communist Chinese, then someone like Socialist Clem Attlee must serve as go-between. The Times defended Attlee as a man of sense; the Liberal News Chronicle reminded its readers that the Socialists "have been fighting Communism all their lives." The Socialist Daily Herald brushed off the criticism as a "circus of spite...
...Hands. Last week CQ celebrated its tenth anniversary, it got its first publisher. The man who will fill the new position is 51-year-old Buel Fellows Weare, a Princeton Phi Beta Kappa (1925), onetime manager of the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, later boss of the T rib's European edition, and, most recently, assistant to the publisher. Weare's job, as outlined by CQ's Owners and Co-Editors Nelson and Henrietta Poynter: to add quantity to CQ's quality circulation...
...rumored up for sale. Colonel Robert R. McCormick's big, successful Chicago Tribune has lost almost 20% of its circulation since 1946 (latest figure: 877,636), and the inevitable rumors have been circulating. One had it that Publisher John Knight, whose string of papers stretches from Florida (Miami Herald) to McCormick's own Chicagoland (Daily News), was dickering to buy the Trib. Last week, in answer to a reader's question, the Trib flatly denied the rumors. Said an editorial...