Word: heraldic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more than a breakfast-table brawl between the Sun and the Tribune. The Windy City's evening papers, freshly filled with new and noisy talent, were also blowing fit to crack their cheeks. A cyclonic Marine captain named Lou Ruppel had taken over Hearst's rowdy Herald-American, and storm signals were out all over town...
...side of his mouth. He went ashore with the Marines at Kwajalein, has since been relieved from active duty. His three-word journalistic credo is: "Lots of sock." He took over as $40,000-a-year executive editor two months ago. At first the rumbles were confined to the Herald-American building, where he was engaged in shaking up his staff. Then he got out on the street, in trick headlines. Sample Ruppel banner when the Allies retook a German town: THINGS LOOK BETTER...
...theme: Chicago is a shoddy place to live, because of cupidity, stupidity, boondoggling and apathy. All this was not so much an expose as a loud public belch, well illustrated. In stories signed by "William Tell," the public was invited to join in with its own complaints. Said the Herald-American: "Tell William . . . and let William Tell...
...circulation, the "Herald-American (with 500,000 plus) already ranks first among Chicago evening papers. Ruppel's competitors include his old paper, the Times, and the sane and sturdy Daily News, now undergoing a freshening of its own under able new management (TIME, Oct. 30). With Ruppel back, the Times and News bravely set themselves for a revival of the eye-gouging Front Page journalism that made Chicago newspapers famed for blatancy-and readability...
That the world's peoples still have a lot to learn about each other was apparent last week to any newspaper reader. Summarizing the results of surveys in recent years in the comparatively well-informed U.S., Pollster Elmo Roper concluded, in the New York Herald Tribune, that many U.S. citizens were appallingly uninformed even about their closest Allies. Samples of ignorance...