Word: herald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neither sing nor dance, Ros has confidently and energetically sung & danced her way into the most enthusiastic rave reviews in recent memory. The Times's Brooks Atkinson, who declared that Rosalind "radiates the genuine comic spirit," demanded that she be elected President of the U.S. The Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr happily surrendered to her "open-armed abandon." The other critics' superlatives ranged from "terrific" to "extraordinarily charming" and "thoroughly delightful...
President Conant may tire of Germany and return to Harvard, Dahl of the Boston Herald suggests in today's cartoon prediction. At least, Harvard's next president will have Conant's grin and subordinate facial characteristics. The only difference will be a superfluous mustache and sideburns...
...cartoonist for the Herald since 1930, Dahl is the author of "Left-Handed Compliments," "What! More Dahl?" and "Dahl's Brave New World...
...protest-as Esquire had doubtless expected. The Houston Press streamed a banner across Page One: HEY, TEXANS! THEY'RE SNIPING AT us AGAIN!! It compared Author Dorrity to "a wino on an overdose of Sterno [who] lashes out at everything in sight ..." Said East Texas' Kilgore News-Herald: the article "sounds as if an agent for Joe Stalin wrote it." In the Dallas News, Columnist Paul Crume, carefully misspelling the author's name, wrote: "We think the thing to do is to laugh and take comfort in the fact that, since Esquire published the article, Mr. Dorrit...
...pyramided in the window. He became a regular visitor, and soon formed a literary friendship with Gordon C. Cairne, the shop's proprietor. In his autobiography Aiken speaks of his visits to the Grolier as some of the most refreshing moments spent in the Square. Joseph Alsop, New York Herald Tribune columnist, spent his undergraduate hours slouched in the shop's overstuffed sofa. Cairnic remembers him as "one of the fattest Freshmen ever to enter Harvard." T. S. Eliot was surrounded by querying students the first time he entered the shop. He answered a few of their questions and scurried...