Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Knight chain's Miami Herald, using color photos and an airy makeup, had the most effective presentation, mixing solid analytical pieces by Knight specialists with such fascinating fluff as the revelation that Walter Cronkite lines up his navel with an arrow on his desk in order to center himself for CBS cameras. Knight showed enterprise as well: Washington Correspondent Vera Glaser cracked a secret women's caucus with a concealed tape recorder, and her colleague Clark Hoyt had the first story on how anti-McGovern forces were conspiring to support local candidates in November instead of the national...
...should be. The editorial page is adorned with one of those snappy buglines that saturate the paper, "View Point," and if you can look at the page long enough to read it, you'll find that the editorial position is all Hearst and Record American. Not that the Herald was much different in content, but the tone was more guarded...
...NOTICEABLE difference is that the editorial positions are now surrounded by more dissenting opinion, compliments of the Herald Traveler's syndicated columnists. In fact, there are four full pages filled out by the stable of syndicates. Likewise, the society page is overrun with columnists, many formerly of Herald Traveler fame, and the two solid pages of comics challenge even the most adamant eight year old. The sports pages of either of the old papers were more sympathetic to Boston's own than The Globe, and this hasn't changed with merger. There's just more...
More of the commonplace everywhere. That may be the best way to describe Boston's newest newspaper. But so far, the more has not coalesced into the better. The Record and Herald has a long way to go before it endears itself to its readers, and is able to shirk the stigma of being the remnant of two familiar, and exquisitely distinct. newspapers...
When a photographer from the Boston Herald-Traveler wanted to take pictures of the family, the reporter asked. "Do you want to put shoes on your little girl?" Gail replied, "Why don't you take the picture without the feet...