Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time employee of the Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation, I was interested in William Mullins' statement at the Law School Forum that in his 30 years with the Boston Herald he had never received instructions from either the publisher or his advertisers. My own observations while with the paper lead me to believe that Mullins' chief function is the receipt of "instructions" from his employer and publisher, Robert Choate...
...incident last summer contradicts Mullins' claim: While I was in the office of the Herald's political columnist, his phone rang, and Mullins identified the caller as Choate. The topic of conversation appeared to be Mullins' treatment of the Robert Bradford-Sinclair Weeks split at the Republican Convention. Weeks, a perusal of old Heralds may convince you, did not come off too well in Mullins' columns in the immediate end-of-convention period. As soon as Mullins hung up he went into Choate's office, and did not return for half an hour...
...Dead in first place for 19 weeks; the Tribune had it there for only ten weeks. One reason, said S.R.L., is that the lists are based "on figures obtained from relatively few stores in relatively few cities . . . without reference to the most elementary rules of statistical sampling." The Herald Tribune, said S.R.L., gets its reports from 67 stores in 50 cities (actually, says the Trib, 60 to 80 stores report each week), but Macy's, one of the biggest U.S. book retailers, is not even represented. (Neither are the book clubs.) The Times listed reports from "leading booksellers...
Some 50,000 people ("a milling, surging, disorderly crowd," sniffed the surprised Boston Herald) broke through police lines to rubberneck at the world's newest and biggest (71¼ tons), fanciest and fastest (up to 375 m.p.h.) commercial airliner. When it paused at Hartford, 30,000 gawking sightseers eddied past its figure8 fuselage. At Chicago, crowds jostled for peeks at its spiral staircase and its underbelly cocktail lounge with fuchsia-colored seats. Then it headed for San Francisco, soon dropped down on the International Air Terminal...
...movie and New York critics rave about it-but Main Street can still give it a cold shoulder. Theater owners generally listen to Main Street, where most of their paying customers live. Before booking a movie, many a cautious exhibitor scans the pages of Boxoffice and Motion Picture Herald for the thumbnail reviews by exhibitors who have already shown the picture...