Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...example (with his plans for the submarine) and destroyed it, on the ground that mankind is too evil to be trusted with such power. Later, men "high in Vatican circles" spoke of "useless massacre,"deplored "the circumstances which have compelled" the use of the bomb. London's Catholic Herald recalled Pope Pius' "Christian distinction between legitimate and illegitimate weapons...
...apartment in Washington's Georgetown, Pertinax worked from 8 a.m. until noon in a bathrobe, read "the three newspapers"-the New York Times and Herald Tribune, the Washington Post-spent his afternoons tapping his pipelines. The best of these were longtime friends in the British Embassy. He gathered his news in personal interviews, not at cocktail parties. Pertinax stuck to his lifelong rule against purely speculative stories, which he feels U.S. columnists overdo. His motto: get to the root of the facts and the conclusion should become self-evident...
...Times's editors paid off Kluckhohn's enterprise with a three column splash on Page 1. Many afternoon subscribers ran Baillie's U.P. story under an eight-column banner. The New York Herald Tribune (probably a little miffed at the Times's scoop-it printed Baillie's story a day later on Page 8) had some hard words on a subject which has troubled many an editor: "Who gains most by an 'exclusive interview'-the paper, or the man who gives it out?" (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Says Lewis: "Being married to Dorothy was like living in the Herald Tribune city room." He once claimed: "She disappeared into the NBC building ten years ago." Dorothy is believed to have contributed to the portrait of "Winifred Homeward the Talking Woman" in Gideon Planish. "She was an automatic, self-starting talker. Any throng of more than two persons constituted a lecture audience for her, and at sight of them she mounted an imaginary platform, pushed aside an imaginary glass of ice water, and started a fervent address full of imaginary information about Conditions and Situations that lasted till...
Last week the New York Herald Tribune asked some handy historians what they were calling it. Said Englishman Denis W. Brogan, now lecturing at Yale: "Maybe after a time I shall call this the atomic war, or the world war, part two." But to him, World War I was no world war, since it had hardly involved Asia and the Pacific. Said Columbia University's Henry Steele Commager: "President Roosevelt tried to find a fancy name, but . . . these wars are too big for descriptive names...