Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...columnist colleague on the New York Herald Tribune, Pundit Walter Lippmann, tartly observed that the President's predilection for postponing world political decisions until after the war was the root of the trouble. Officially, the U.S. favors only democratically elected governments in liberated countries. This principle, said Mr. Lippmann, is "an excellent principle [but] totally irrelevant to the real problem" of setting up an interim government until the country is ready to hold elections...
...British press and public, which now disapprove of any needless "Winnie" junkets, were glad to see him go; his summary summation of the Greek situation had not been in the best British diplomatic tradition. The London Times called the journey "an act of statesmanlike courage," the Labor Daily Herald, "the first constructive move towards a settlement that has come either from the Greeks or the British." If the Prime Minister were indeed backtracking, this would not be the first time in his long career that he had first breathed defiance, then hearkened to the voice of public opinion...
Same day, Motion Picture Herald, having completed its annual poll of exhibitors, revealed that the No. i box-office star of the year was Bing Crosby, phenomenally popular in Going...
Newsman Cowan, 34, a shy, stocky, serious Omaha World-Herald reporter-photographer who covers the police run on weekends, was sitting in Omaha's detective bureau when the accident call droned in over the radio. Racing down two flights of stairs to the pressroom, he grabbed his camera, ran for his car. Too rushed to put on his tire chains, he set off behind the police ambulance (which had chains) in a skidding, hair-raising, 75-block chase over slippery roads, through red lights, down an icy hill. At the bottom of the hill...
...When the World-Herald's Photographer Earle L. Bunker took his famed 1943 news picture of a soldier's homecoming, Harold Cowan stood beside him, snapped the same picture. Result for Bunker: a Pulitzer prize. Result for Cowan, who had failed to focus properly: an unprintable blur...