Word: herald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON POST AND TIMES HERALD...
...York Herald Tribune's reporter was taking a frankly subjective view of the news. When the judges gave second place in last week's "Little Sebring" sports-car race to a Porsche Carrera, she banged out a bristling protest. "The Carrera, I do believe," typed Denise McCluggage, "was third instead of second." Then she added her reason for second-judging the judges...
...past two years pert Denise McCluggage, 30, has been giving Herald Tribune readers the brand of personalized reporting that has all but disappeared from the nation's sport sections. Few of her male colleagues would bother to bat against the Phillies' Robin Roberts to get their baseball stories. But Denny McCluggage is willing and able to tool a skittish sports car through a major race, or rocket down a mountainside in a ski meet to give her stories an expert's touch. Her bylined stories are often self-consciously worded, but they usually sparkle with a personal...
...Denny McCluggage suddenly became dissatisfied with San Francisco ("I felt I owned it"), and set out for New York to "tilt with skyscrapers." For the first six months, the skyscrapers knocked her flat; while laying siege to the Herald Tribune (because another woman, far-traveling Marguerite Higgins, had done so well there), she judged jingle contests, publicized a few hotels, and on some days was down to very slim rations. But the Herald Trib finally surrendered, hired her to write women's features. In 1955 Sports Editor Bob Cooke saw a piece she had written on skiing, brought...
This week, in a new history of the British press called Dangerous Estate, newsmen may find a timely re-evaluation of their basic role on both sides of the Atlantic. Written by Francis Williams, a veteran Fleet Streeter who was editor of the Laborite Daily Herald before the war and now edits the Socialist Forward magazine, the book was hailed by the London Observer's reviewer as the best study of the press he had read, praised by the London Times and recommended by the Manchester Guardian as "required reading...