Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carl Van Doren, book review editor of the Boston Herald, was guest at a punch and reception held at the Advocate House by the Advocate...
...purpose of collecting and filing these papers is to provide a fairly accurate cross-section of the influences which are at work on public opinion and in turn the United States government. More conservative interests are represented by papers like the "New York Times" and the "New York Herald Tribune"; the leftists by "The Awakener"; and Italians by "Dielli". But it is impossible to fulfill this purpose, to mirror truthfully the kaleidoscopic forces at work, without taking cognizance of Mr. Hearst and his nosegay press...
...Crowell Publishing Co. Undoubted reason for last week's purchase was that Elias was planning something extra to print on these presses though he already prints some 100 periodicals in all fields-newspapers, medical papers, trade papers. His range of publications includes such variety as the Daily Herald, with a 2,000,000 circulation, Weekly Illustrated, Debrett (Britain's social register), The People, Passing Show, and John Bull. Editor-in-chief of every organ put out by Odhams is John Dunbar, a Scot with a rich brogue. Elias, who has never written a newspaper story in his life...
...John Bull's Secret Service," said the Herald Tribune last November, "is catching and jailing at a record rate spies with German contracts, and worrying the Nazi war staff and diplomatic chieftains by an uncanny knowledge of things which the Nazis thought were impenetrable secrets. . . . Vansittart is the only man living who knows all the Number Ones of the British Secret Service. Even the Prime Minister is denied that knowledge. But one other man is let in on the money side. He is Sir Warren Fisher, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and Head of the Civil Service...
Having praised Leslie Howard not at all and John Gielgud perhaps not enough for their Hamlets, New York critics last week gave the season's third major Shakespearean headliner his just due and then some. As Richard II, Maurice Evans was "thrilling and memorable" to the Herald Tribune, "triumphant" to the Times, "majestic" to the News. Not even the hallowed Edwin Booth, who last revived the role in Manhattan in 1878, could have asked for more. Actor Evans, a mellowed Britisher, trained for his latest royal part as Napoleon in St. Helena and the Dauphin in Katharine Cornell...