Word: herald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other afternoon, a typical group perched atop "Critics' Roost," the three-tier bench at the side of the field. Besides Mr. Bolles, Dean Bender and assorted Boston sports writers, the "regulars," stringers from the Post, the Globe, the Associated Press, the New York Herald Tribune, the Alumni Bulletin and the Breakfast Table Daily, were present...
...this, Atkinson's halo kept shining long after its wearer's usefulness ended. Thus, when the Council ousted Atkinson, the Boston Herald lamented, "John J. Curry (the new manager) will begin his term under a cloud. . ." There were many others in the chorus of indignation. To them, Atkinson was not simply a reformer, he was reform itself, and it mattered little if his was the kind that measures progress only in terms of a decreasing tax-rate...
Happily, two Cambridge Civic Association city councillors, Crane and Deguglielmo, had long since adjusted their eyesight to the halo's glare. As politicians, they knew far better than the despairing Herald that efficiency and honesty are no more than first steps to good government. Happily, too, the man they helped elect has equally keen eyes...
...others did not think the overall issue counted. They saw one thing: Atkinson brought reform, so Atkinson should be kept. The Boston Herald commented editorially: "John J. Curry will begin his term of office under a shadow . . . he will never be able to forget that the man who preceded him was a strong man who could say no and who was fired because of it; who left office with few political friends, but with high honor." What these Atkinson proponents evidently forgot, at least the majority of the councillors thought, was that Atkinson was elected by a good government coalition...
...Fowler, assistant chief of staff (assistant city editor), Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. He plans to study government and economics...