Word: herald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have strong maternal instincts." In the hospital at Lucknow, India, where the boy was being treated, reported A.P., the wolf boy "cringes from the light . . . snarls," and has "tried to bite attendants." The wire services and the dozens of papers that ran the story (including the New York Herald Tribune and the Baltimore Sun) left out one detail about the "wolf boy," which every editor should have known: the story was a complete (and tragic) hoax, the same kind of hoax that crops up every year...
...been partially paralyzed by a birth injury, he was found abandoned in a third-class railway coach in Lucknow. Doctors at the hospital where he was taken discovered he had two sets of upper incisors, hastily jumped to a series of unwarranted, nonmedical conclusions. The English-language Lucknow National Herald (est. circ. 10,000) heard about it, carried the first story reporting that the boy "seems to have been taken away to the jungle by jackals when just a small child." A Reuters correspondent at New Delhi, 300 miles away, long-distanced the hospital, put the story on its world...
...Although the Figaro performance got good notices, the Met had a pretty rough week. Critic Virgil Thomson of the Herald Tribune took aim at the impressionistic new stage set with which Rudolf Bing & Co. have tried to brighten Don Giovanni, and let go with both barrels: "In this presentation, Don Giovanni lives just across the street from Donna Anna, but she does not recognize him when he tries to rape her ... All this residential proximity turns the story into a news item about how two ladies got rid of a criminal neighbor...
...signed with a foreign power. Then Congress would elect a new President. The suggestion might have been considered harebrained had it not come from the most widely syndicated political pundit in the U.S. The pundit: Columnist David Lawrence, 65, whose "Today in Washington." sold by the New York Herald Tribune to 257 U.S. newspapers, is the respected voice of right-wing Republicans. In Lawrence's mixture of news and opinion Eisenhower Republicans often find as little to agree with as do Fair Deal Democrats...
...White chartered a plane and crashed in East Africa, the news would probably make the bottom of the front pages of the New York Times and Herald Tribune and pass almost unnoticed in the rest of the nation's press. Yet he is easily one of the two or three finest Jiving American writers and certainly one of the handful of truly great writers this country has produced...