Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laurence I. Barrett, put aside his editing pencil to write the cover story, his 26th since joining TIME in 1965. For him, it represents a return to his earliest professional concerns. After graduation from New York University and the Columbia School of Journalism, Barrett went to the New York Herald Tribune as a political reporter in 1958. He wrote a weekly column on New York's city hall (accumulating grist for his 1965 novel, The Mayor of New York), then moved to Washington to cover the Pentagon and national politics. When the Trib, with Barrett on the story...
...Cambridge, Mass. A self-styled Brahmin, Frazier was the Harvard-honed son of a fire inspector. After making his name as a jazz critic, ubiquitous freelance and LIFE writer, the widely read gadfly went on to ramble polysyllabically about style, taste and whatever else he fancied in his Boston Herald and, later, Boston Globe columns. Proud of his image as a professional snob-he proclaimed the common man an "ill-clad, ill-spoken hooligan"-Frazier brought his own hot dogs to baseball games and named among his bêtes noires white socks ("Shoot 'em on sight...
...York (circ. 355,000), which emerged from the defunct Herald Tribune as a separate weekly in 1968, rapidly established its own flip, highly successful style-typified by such contributors as Tom Wolfe, Gail Sheehy and Economist "Adam Smith." Although it adopted some of the Voice's interests and also produces excellent coverage of politics and communications, New York set its prime sights on the glossy worries and aspirations of more affluent New Yorkers, telling them how to recognize the best of everything and where to buy it. If the Voice tries to counter the reigning establishment of the moment...
...also president of the parent company, acquisition of the Voice added a new dimension to his journalistic career. Felker joined Time Inc. in 1951 and worked as a LIFE correspondent in New York and Washington before moving to Esquire as feature editor in 1957. Hired as editor of the Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine section in 1963, he transformed it into New York in 1968 after the Trib folded...
...President." Pierre burnishes the memory of Kennedy's generally happy relationship with the press, but overlooks the late President's courting of reporters, his participation in the suppression of news about the Bay of Pigs, and his canceling a subscription to the critical New York Herald Tribune. Still, Salinger concludes, "The President understood one great truth about the relationship between the presidency and the press -and that is that they fundamentally have to be adversaries...