Word: herald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played by U.S. ground rules, asked in advance only for what fields the questions would cover. Producer Ted Ayers replied so broadly that he left a free hand to his panel, Moderator Stuart Novins and Moscow Correspondents Daniel Schorr of CBS and B. J. Cutler of the New York Herald Tribune...
Headline of the Week In the Calgary Alta. Herald NEWFOUNDLAND DEBT CAUSED BY POVERTY
...capita circulation, and will pull in a record $560 million in advertising this year, pessimism shrouded much of Fleet Street this week like an out-of-season pea-souper. Reasons: sapped by soaring costs and plummeting readership, Britain's fourth and fifth biggest dailies, the Labor-owned Daily Herald (circ. 1,653,997) and the Independent-Liberal News Chronicle (1,441,438), were desperately discussing a marriage of convenience; three smaller newspapers had already gone under in the past seven months. Nor were dailies alone in their troubles. London's earnest left-wing Sunday Reynolds' News...
Less successful papers have thus been quick to feel the pinch of production costs, long fattened by featherbedding mechanical unions and skyrocketing newsprint prices, which at $146 a ton (v. $134 in New York) are six times the prewar level. Aggrieved by the Laborite Herald's woes, one Labor M.P. even charged in the Commons' debate that the "giants have been deliberately inflating costs because they know that [they] will squeeze out their weaker brethren," while a Tory went so far as to propose beefing up ailing papers with government-paid newsprint subsidies...
...industry looked ahead with mutterings and misgivings last week to one of the fall season's new castings: John Crosby in the dual role of TV critic for the New York Herald Tribune (plus 92 other papers) and a well-paid CBS performer, presiding over the network's ambitious, hour-long Sunday afternoon show, The Seven Lively Arts...