Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyed Brooks Atkinson of New York Times chuckled, applauded, said: "Tovarich is the season's first hit." On same day, scholarly, professorial looking John Mason Brown of the Post said: "Tovarich is the first smash hit of the season." Richard Watts, Jr., blue-shirted, plumpish pundit of Herald Tribune called Tovarich "the first resounding dramatic smash of the season." Equally in accord were other critics...
Left. By the late Theatre Critic Percy Hammond of the New York Herald Tribune (TIME, May 4); to his son John T.; a net estate of $117,265; in Riverhead...
Last week, the founder-stockholders scanned their annual financial report with satisfaction. That the breadline had become remote as Mars was evident when they observed that their News-Herald started with a $5,000 shoestring, now had 103 employes earning a $125,000 annual payroll, 250 carriers earning $3,000 a month, an annual business turnover of $250,000, a circulation of almost 20,000, largest of any Canadian morning paper west of Toronto...
Trials & tribulations which led to this substantial co-operative publication success were many. Mouse-poor, the News-Herald founders had to start printing with an ancient press which they dug out from under a pile of rubbish and bought from a job plant, on terms, for $1,100. They turned it over by hand when it failed to function on the paper's first '"run." Later expert Pressman Jim Gauntlet was called in consultation from Seattle. Cried Jim Gauntlet when he spied the News-Herald press: ''Good God! I thought I had seen the last...
...worth something was that of Roy Harold Robichaud, a door-to-door circulation solicitor before the Star fell, who was elected president by his associates to head the six-man. Board of Directors which is made up of the paper's department heads. Editor who made the News-Herald well liked by Vancouverites was James Noel ("Pat") Kelly, born on the Isle of Man and a world wanderer until he settled in Vancouver. For world news, he figured correctly that the News-Herald could get along with the half-hour daily "pony" (telephone) United Press service from Portland...