Word: heraldings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cautiously stepped a small dark man whose face wore the faintly perplexed expression of a foreigner. As he has done each year for the last 19, Laurence Hills was returning to his native New York City to report on the condition of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune, of which he is editor and general manager. Three facts made this trip different from its predecessors: 1) Laurence Hills was sick, 2) Europe was sick, 3) his paper was not too well...
Probably the most storied newspaper of its size in the world, the Paris Herald, as most Americans call it (Parisians call it Le New York), has lived through three distinct careers, under three publishers. Each career has reflected the condition and aspirations of its readers-the Americans who live in Europe. Founded in 1887 by the late great James Gordon Bennett, it was for three decades a society paper for those expatriates of whom Henry James liked to write. It carried whole pages of yachting news, maintained its own coach to Versailles, was written in two languages, with the somewhat...
Laurence Hills was Washington correspondent for the New York Sun in 1920 when Frank Andrew Munsey bought the New York Herald and with it the Paris edition. Hills asked Munsey to let him run the Paris Herald and got, with the job, Munsey's blunt opinion that "there is no need of a first-class newspaperman on the Herald." Laurence Hills, then 40, remade the paper nevertheless. He threw out the French departments, put in United Press service, used airplanes to get his paper to London and Amsterdam, upped daily stock quotations from five or six to 600. Hills...
...Herald in the 1920s was a newspaperman's alcoholic dream. The pay was not much ($40 a week was top) and the turnover was fast, but the work was easy and two big staffs (afternoon and night) of rewrite and copydesk men could spend half their time in the bistro on the corner or playing cards on the copy desk. The Herald was published in an old building in the Rue du Louvre, adequately covered by insurance, and it was considered all right to light fires in the wastebaskets and put them out with imitation champagne. Only permanent fixtures...
Last week, as Lawyer Brookes became president of American Newspapers Inc., top Hearst holding company, he nostalgically recalled that he used to be a newspaperman himself. He was a cub reporter on the Washington Herald in his law-school days, long before Hearst bought & sold the Herald. He has had, however, another and longer connection with the business: the new head of the largest U. S. newsprint consumer has been since 1933 a director of International Paper Co., largest paper company in the world...