Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helped her prepare the book, died before it was completed. In 581 pages Mrs. Older pours out her wholehearted admiration for her husband's old boss. In a different vein, fortnight ago appeared Imperial Hearst: A Social Biography,† by Ferdinand Lundberg, onetime Chicago reporter and New York Herald Tribune Wall Street man. A charter member of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' union with which Mr. Hearst is perpetually at war, Biographer Lundberg entrenches himself on the economic Left and muckrakes his subject with pious zeal...
...been anxiously awaiting. Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and owner of the two papers, had found and appointed a successor to onetime General Manager Emanuel Levi, who a month ago departed to take charge of Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner (TIME, March 9). New Courier-Journal and Times boss was Mark Foster Ethridge, famed Southern newspaperman. In Richmond, Va., where he had just resigned as publisher of the Times-Dispatch, Mark Ethridge's associates sorrowfully declared that what was Louisville's journalistic gain was Richmond's loss...
Promoter Dickson's Boswell is ancient little Sparrow Robertson, sports columnist of the Paris Herald, in whose writings it is a 5-to-1 bet that Promoter Dickson's name will appear on any given day. Dickson's secretary is Count Nicolas Ignatieff, son of Prince Nicolas Ignatieff, who once commanded the Tsar's Imperial Guard. When they discovered each other, the Count was a taxi driver and Promoter Dickson was his first fare. Apologizing for his incompetence as a chauffeur, the Count admitted he could speak twelve languages and take shorthand dictation. Dickson ordered...
...workers of the W.P.A., bursting into the headlines with a series of fuming strikes, have brought cracking down on their skulls a number of private investigations. The principal discovery of such men as Allen Raymond of the New York Herald Tribune is the fact that a group of communistic agitators, sponging on the government payroll, are using Uncle Sam's capitalistic cash to whip together a "red" machine. Yet however true these charges may be they fail to consider that the "reds" are striking not for a bloody revolution, but rather for a fair deal from their American administrators...
...tricks. Many a vaudeville performer can play Yankee Doodle and Old Black Joe simultaneously when his stooges in the audience suggest the titles. Alec Templeton impressed Chicago critics with more remarkable feats. When Glenn Dillard Gunn gave him a theme, he quickly responded with a choral prelude which the Herald & Examiner critic almost took for a Bach-Busoni transcription. Pianist Templeton also showed Mr. Gunn he had not only learned Rachmaninoff's new Paganini Rhapsody from records but also could rattle off his own piano transcription of the complicated orchestra score. Alec Templeton amazed Critic Edward Barry...