Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Super-Animal. The miracle of Dogpatch had become a greater national phenomenon than Lena the Hyena; culturally it had surpassed even Sadie Hawkins day. To New York Herald Tribune Radio Columnist John Crosby, who thought he detected a likeness between the whiskered shmoo and a certain Chicago newspaper publisher, the book was "one of the finest satiric creations since Gulliver's Travels." (No, said Capp modestly, that was overrating Dean Swift.) To Dr. Frederic Wertham, a Manhattan psychiatrist who crusades against comic books, the shmoo offered "a solution of human problems on the same spurious level as Nietzsche...
Said the World-Telegram's front-page headline: 8 COPS, 1 DOCTOR, 1 PRIEST, NEIGHBORS DELIVER TWINS. No, said the Herald Tribune, it was 10 POLICEMEN, INTERN, PRIEST . . . Said the Sun, not to be outdone: 12 COPS ASSIST . . . (By actual count, it was nine cops.) Then the tabloid Mirror found that a mother in New Jersey had given birth to triplets, also with police help. It wrapped up both stories under the headline of the week...
...finicky bachelor of 52, Virgil Thomson comes from Missouri, but got to Manhattan by way of Harvard and Paris. Since he repatriated himself and joined the New York Herald Tribune, he has become America's most readable, and perhaps its best, music critic. Concertgoing by night, and composing by day in his dim, Victorian rooms in Manhattan's old Chelsea Hotel, he has also become one of the few U.S.-born composers who can (or cares to) catch the sights, sounds, smells and flavors of the U.S. in his music-one reason that documentary moviemakers like Pare Lorentz...
Last week Good News was getting heartening fan mail from people who wanted to subscribe. "It is as if you light a small fire, and people come to you to get their hands warm," beamed Editor Jung. The New York Herald Tribune, scanning his first issue with friendly skepticism, gave his criticism of news more aid & comfort than perhaps it realized: "What he is saying, of course, is that news is what you make it, and that at least some American editors are feeding too much spark into the mixture . . . His point is good, even though he happens...
...much for pressing pants." Grandfather Pearson still dotes on their daughter Ellen and her year-old son Drew.) Cissy and Pearson split over politics: Pearson & Allen became too New Dealish for Cissy's taste. Mrs. Patterson not only threw the column out of her Times-Herald, but fired Movie Reviewer Luvie Pearson out of spite...