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Victories. Despite the best efforts of the broadcasters-and often of the industry-dominated FCC-the challengers have won several major victories. After a petition by another commercial group, the license for Boston's WHDH-TV was taken away from the company that also owned the Herald Traveler newspaper. As a result, the Herald Traveler, which depended on TV revenues, will cease publication and sell its assets to the Hearst newspaper chain. In an out-of-court settlement, Mexican-American groups engineered some revisions in Time Inc.'s proposed sale of its five TV stations to McGraw-Hill...
Going abroad this summer? Afraid of losing touch with what's happening at home? Not to worry. Whether you wind up in Brussels or Bangkok, the International Herald Tribune will tell you about Charlie Brown's latest hangup, what Chrysler stock is selling for, whether Willie Mays homered for the Mets, who won the Democratic presidential nomination and how, and what columnists from Art Buchwald to Bill Buckley make...
...world. It is read with respect in the power centers of Europe, where English is now the second language. Nineteen copies a day go to Peking, and the Kremlin also subscribes. Editor Murray "Buddy" Weiss, 48, who was the last managing editor of the New York Herald Tribune, talks of a "mid-Atlantic viewpoint" that implies a degree of detachment from both the U.S. and Europe...
...many ways the Trib lives up to its claim of being "not fundamentally an American newspaper published abroad, but a newspaper published abroad by Americans," though its parentage is mongrelized, though a plethora of bylines now appears, Weiss manages nonetheless to keep something of the old New York Herald Tribune's tone. It is serious, but not solemn. If New Yorkers notice a familiar rhythm to some of the editorials, they are not imagining things. Harry Baehr, 64, once the New York paper's chief editorial writer, still contributes a few editorials each week-writing from New York...
...James Gordon Bennet Jr., self-exiled son of the New York Herald's founder, started the paper in 1887 as the Paris edition of the Herald. In 1935 it became the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, which it still strongly resembles in typography. After the parent paper died in 1966, Publisher John Hay Whitney took on the Post and Times as partners in the Paris survivor...