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...name tags they wear identify them by the publications they used to work for. And in some ways this is a sadder reminder than age of the wear and tear in the newspaper business since Korea. Gone the New York Herald Tribune (d. 1966) and the Chicago Daily News (d. 1978). Gone is Hearst's old International News Service, merged in 1958 with the United Press to form U.P.I. (United Press International...
...Korean War's three biggest reporting stars could not appear. In 1951 they shared the Pulitzer Prize. One, Keyes Beech, of the Chicago Daily News, was in Bangkok. At 66, he is charging around Asia again, now for the Los Angeles Times. Homer Bigart, 72, of the defunct Herald-Trib, sent a message of regret. He was, he explained, temporarily toothless: "I am capable of putting down the martini, but I can't handle the olives." The third, Marguerite Higgins, who worked with Bigart on the Trib, died in 1966 at age 45, of a tropical bug caught...
...variously hailed as "the birth of Islamic justice" and the "fruition of the blood of the revolution's martyrs." At the bidding of the Muslim clergy, tens of thousands of Iranians last week took to their rooftops to herald its coming. Next morning, 17 months after the revolution that drove the toppled Shah into exile, the first session of the new Iranian parliament, the Majlis, convened in the capital of Tehran. It was symptomatic of the country's volatile political climate that most of the 213 newly elected representatives arrived with personal bodyguards. Some even carried their...
...More cops appeared and more students. The taunts continued. One officer used his stick on one fellow and the riot began. It lasted well into the night and a lot of boys wound up in jail, some of them hurt quite badly. It was a big story for the Herald next morning and for the Transcript and the Traveler in the afternoon...
...working on an irrigation ditch. The sky got dark, and I thought we had a hailstorm coming. Then it got deathly still, and all you could see through the darkness was the purple-pink glow of sheet lightning." Said Chuck Taylor, a reporter for the Tri-City Herald in Pasco, Wash., who was at the Hanford nuclear complex 140 miles from St. Helens: "It looked exactly like a tornado bearing down...