Word: herald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shane MacKay, legislative reporter. Winnipeg Free Press: Edmond W. Tipping, chief of staff, Melbourne Herald; and H.J.E. Kane, chief reporter, Christ-church (New Zealand) Press...
...concerned. Most papers spoke of 1,000,000 spectators but the Post was satisfied with only 500,000. The split continued in editorial page discussion of the general's talk, the main purpose of his visit. To the Post it was "filled up with platitudes and inconsistencies," while the Herald called the speech "grand," conceding, however, that there were "glaring inconsistencies." The Record found it a "masterly address," but on the same page the daily quotation from William Randolph Hearst ran "Humanity is fallible. We cannot look for perfection in politicians...
...most imaginative report was in the Herald, which wrote: after the speech "the general was clapping the governor on the back as if to say, 'I'm sorry I had to get rough, Paul, but I didn't mean...
...during the visit the papers sought to out-adjective one another in describing MacArthur. He was "America's greatest soldier-statesman," and "like some sequoia, calm and proudly decked." Herald Columnist Bill Cunningham wrote that the general and his wife were "fresh as flowers in a florist's refrigerator" and noted, "If every wife were as pretty, as trim and as charming as Mrs. MacArthur, despite Corregidor, Australia, Japan, etc., they wouldn't have to resort to dreaming...
...Friday the morning papers had nothing to say, as his departure from the state had been fully reported by the papers of the afternoon before. The Herald remedied that situation...