Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wade C. Thompson, through an advertisement in the Brown Daily Herald, asked for signers for a petition that called for the abolishment of football at Brown, labeling the game "anti-intellectual and bourgeois." The Herald quoted the instructor as saying, "the reaction (to the proposal) exceeded my wildest expectations...
...White House. The son of a Brooklyn coffee merchant, Murray Snyder worked his way up from sportswriter on the San Antonio Light to political reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. Invited to the White House by Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty in 1953, Snyder put in four years as Hagerty's assistant. He has attempted to quiet some of his critics by saying that the public information policies he follows come straight from the White House...
Singing contestants and sagging ratings killed the quizzes. Twenty One, The $64,000 Question, The $64,000 Challenge, and half a dozen other intellectual pretenders are buried. The fancy "Fantastics" that were supposed to herald a trend -Invisible Man and World of Giants-have yet to find sponsors. Patti Page and Buddy Bregman, with their variety shows, will be dropped in March; Man with a Camera, a freelance photographer's adventures, was a flop from the start, will also disappear next month. Behind Closed Doors, a cloak-and-daguerreotype, is almost sure to follow. Even laughter is losing...
...distant kin to the late Frank Gannett, who ran a bigger chain-currently 20 papers in four states. Guy's papers: the Portland Press-Herald, Express and Sunday Telegram, the Waterville Sentinel, and the Kennebec Journal in Augusta. Combined circulation...
...unable to tell a Senate committee the name of the Ceylonese premier. Last week, while telling a press conference of his desire to see more career diplomats in senior positions, the President was pushing the nomination of the 35-year-old former owner of the solidly Republican New York Herald Tribune as Ambassador to Israel...