Word: herald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Editor Whitelaw Reid of the New York Herald Tribune has long wanted his paper to run the column "State of the Nation," written by the Christian Science Monitor's able Washington Bureau Chief Roscoe Drummond. But the Trib could not buy the column; the Monitor allows no syndication of its features. This week "Whitey" Reid took more direct action to get the column and, at the same time, filled the top spot in his paper's 15-man Washington bureau, second largest newspaper bureau in the capital (first: the New York Times). He named Roscoe Drummond, 51, chief...
Last week it looked as if McCord's campaign was getting somewhere. New York Herald Tribune Columnist John Crosby had "dorsed" the trend, proclaimed himself a member of the "Society for the Restoration of Lost Positives." Later, a smart copywriter for Gimbels picked up the idea, blazoned an eight-column ad for fall college fashions: "couth, kempt, sheveled . . . that's how college girls will look this fall...
...during his boyhood days in South Carolina by stringing wires between the tall pines in his parents' backyard. He worked for a while as a professional wireless operator on ships plying the Pacific. Later, when he became a reporter for Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner, he set up a ham set in the city room. When police captured Public Enemy John Dillinger in 1934 and refused to tell newsmen the whereabouts and time of arrival of the plane carrying him from Tucson to Chicago, Turner was the man behind the big scoop. He caught the pilot...
...News that Corporal Ralph Meier of White Lake, S.Dak. had been freed by the Communists prompted some soul-searching by his 17-year-old wife Avis. Last March, after having heard the previous fall that Meier had died in prison camp, Avis Meier married Herald Kapsch of Mitchell, S.Dak. When a G.I. released last April in Operation Little Switch reported Meier alive, she had her second marriage annulled, but she hasn't made up her mind about the future. Says she: "I was so sure Ralph was dead, and my whole life had taken on a new direction...
Last week, in a masterful bit of fence-straddling, the Corporation reinstated her, but announced that she would not be reappointed when her present term expires next June. Cried the Boston Herald: "A ponderous pussyfooting . . . You can no more be partially loyal than you can be partially pregnant...