Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exits of most hired newsrooms hands are quiet and quick. The exit of John Temple Graves II from the staff of the Birmingham Age-Herald last week was a five-day rowdydow...
...years, Graves's column, "This Morning," had the Age-Herald's Page One, Column One spot. He was stoutly in favor of Southern chivalry, Birmingham-made steel, free enterprise, John Temple Graves II and segregation of Negroes. A round-faced, goggle-eyed Georgian of 53, Graves was editor of the Jacksonville (Fla.) Journal when in 1929 the Age-Herald's late Publisher Victor Hanson hired him away, for $75 a week, and made him a columnist...
...fortnight ago, Graves, who had not had a raise in all his Age-Herald years, was informed by General Manager James E. Chappell that "This Morning" would be booted off Page One forthwith and deposited inside the paper. Graves promptly wrote to Chappell: "My column has . . . become easily the most widely read and popular thing in the papers as well as in the South from a Southern writer. . . . The reading public will interpret [this shift] as another example of what happens to columnists when they don't follow your editorial policy. . . . My column's policies, as you know...
Three days later Graves's "This Morning," retitled "This Afternoon," popped up on Page One of the Age-Herald's opposition, Scripps-Howard's Birmingham Post...
Some critics recalled that Bach himself had been content with a choir of 17 voices. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's waspish Virgil Thomson: "Any chorus of 200 can make a majestic noise; and Mr. Ifor's [sic] chorus makes the most agreeable, the most brilliant and bright-sounding choral fortissimo I have ever heard. . . . But how much richer and grander it would be if Mr. Jones would cut his chorus down about 80 per cent and his orchestra by half...