Word: heraldic
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...committee," the purpose of which was to "keep editors on their toes, to keep them mad and unsatisfied." That restless spirit has been typical of the Globe in recent years, and this week the paper got another prod toward self-improvement: the death of its traditional rival, the Herald Traveler...
...demise of the 125-year-old Herald leaves the Globe morning and afternoon papers in head-to-head competition with expanded Hearst entries. The chain bought the name and relatively modern plant of the Herald and this week transformed its tabloid Record American into standard-size papers: the morning Herald Traveler and Record American and, for variety, the afternoon Record American and Herald Traveler. "Strangely enough," says Globe Editor Thomas Winship, "it looks like we may now have more competition, not less...
Vivacity. The Globe figures to pick up about a quarter of the old Herald's circulation of 192,000 (the Globe sells 417,000 on weekdays, 546,000 on Sundays). The Globe has been steadily improving for several years. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for its coverage of the Kennedy family's efforts to promote a federal judgeship for an old retainer, and picked up another this spring for an expose of corruption in Somerville, Mass. "The death of the Herald" says Winship, "should enable us to put out a much better newspaper." As a first...
...Globe's strivings for both vivacity and quality result from the happy association of Winship and the Taylor family. Publisher Davis Taylor is content to give his editors considerable leeway and solid financial backing. The Herald management diverted attention and resources into the long, doomed fight to save its broadcasting license (TIME, May 8); the Taylors have sold much of their interest in Kaiser-Globe Broadcasting and invested proceeds in a $6,000,000 expansion of the newspaper...
...point of retaining intact WHDH news staff. But there seems to be reason for a wait-and-see attitude. Gardner said that a major effort will be made improving WCVB's news programs, a move which might minimize the informational gap created by the death of the Herald-Traveler. He expected WCVB news to be doing more investigative reporting, and to use better graphics and visual aids...