Word: herald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day the Washington Post and Times Herald hailed him: "An inspiring plea ... It is hard to disagree with Mr. Folbright." Added Adlai E. Stevenson: "I made the same point in two campaigns." But the New York Times was not bemused: "The speech went as far back as Sparta and Athens to illustrate some of its points, but perhaps the most remarkable point was that a Senator from Arkansas could speak so long and so eloquently . . . without once mentioning or discussing Little Rock...
...pidgin French. By the time A.P. filed its first bulletin at 3:08 a.m., Taylor's English-language story had been cleared by censors and was clacking over the teletypes. Though phone calls were monitored, the censors concentrated on the Caracas-New York lines. Thus the New York Herald Tribune's Caracas stringer was able to relay developments to Trib Correspondent Joseph Newman in Buenos Aires...
...after a two-year rise from copyboy to overnight editor of Chicago's hardboiled, fast-moving City News Bureau,* brash, blond Bruce Sagan (rhymes with pagan) paid $2,500 for a withered weekly called the Hyde Park Herald. Breathing life into the body and new fire into the Southside community. Publisher Sagant mounted a hard-hitting campaign for slum clearance, coupled picture spreads of slum dwellings (including owners' names) with authoritative how-to-do-it articles on redevelopment. Outcome: Hyde Park qualified for federal aid as the Midwest's first and biggest project of this type approved...
...Palace. Training his slingshot on the Democratic machine, Wonderboy Sagan at 26 helped elect Independent State Representative Abner Mikva, who was voted "outstanding freshman" of 1957 by the Illinois legislature. Taking on the Chicago Theological Seminary, the Herald last year leaped into the fight that saved Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Robie House from demolition to make way for a dormitory. As circulation hit 8,500-350% more than the old Herald-Publisher Sagan was able to say: "The paper is worth ten times what we paid...
...having one of his reporters committed to a state mental hospital to get a series of Page One stories, disguising his photographers as clergymen, using siren-screeching ambulances to deliver World Series photographs. After wartime service as a U.S. Marines officer, he went to Hearst's Chicago Herald-American as executive editor (1945), moved on to Coltier's to salvage the magazine's drooping revenue; tried "an expose a week" but flopped, ended his explosive career as an associate editor of Hearst's Sunday supplement, the American Weekly...