Word: herald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parsons success may be attributed to a combination of circumstances. She wrote her first movie column for the Chicago Record-Herald in 1914. She enriched her experience by working for three years on the Morning Telegraph, a New York racing and theater sheet, and then, starting in 1922, for Hearst's New York American. Her husband had died, and she was supporting their young daughter Harriet, who is now a producer in Hollywood. Her first big break came when she fell ill of tuberculosis and Hearst shipped her to recuperate, on full salary, to an unknown California town called...
...Herald Tribune Sport Reporter Al Laney, reporting how Herbert Flam stood up to Australian Frank Sedgman's serve: "This includes one game in which he missed altogether and lost at it and another in which he hit only twice but still won. And it is wonderfully consistent serving...
Dean of U.S. political columnists for two decades, Mark Sullivan of the New York Herald Tribune was a durable fixture, weathering all upheavals. Austere, pink-faced in high Hooveresque collar and pinch-nose glasses, he looked as staunchly conservative as his columns sounded. Since Sullivan had won his first fame as a muckraking, trust-walloping liberal, friends sometimes chided him for changing his views. "I haven't changed," Sullivan would reply with gentle dignity. "The world changed...
...Curious Druggist. At World War I's end, the New York Times's Washington pundit, Arthur Krock, persuaded his friend Sullivan that the time was ripe for a Washington political column. Sullivan tried the New York Evening Post before he finally settled down with the Herald Tribune (then the Tribune...
Even headline-hardened readers of Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express (circ. 305,056) were astonished last week by the seven-column streamer: LINK MARGARET TRUMAN-ADLAI IN ROMANCE...