Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Stevens, having just resigned as town treasurer of Andover, Vt. (pop. 213), sat down last week to write a difficult letter to the nearby Rutland Daily Herald. "This letter is not to be construed as an effort to disperse blame," he began, "nor am I trying to be dramatic. The mood is that of self-condemnation, coupled with a profound disappointment in myself as a person and citizen...
Nonchalance. "Being a person of reticent nature, it is entirely foreign to me to expose for public scrutiny a segment of my life," he wrote the Herald. "Having been through all the torments of the damned in the past few weeks, I can now view with some degree of objectivity my own sorry failure ... I accepted the post with no thought of misappropriation. The first audit was sketchy . . . Subsequent audits found me in varying degrees of embarrassment, but since I was never pinned down, I became . . . amazingly nonchalant about the whole matter, believing, alas, the money would be easily replaced...
...Similar practices are not unknown in the U.S. In 1863, Horace Greeley denounced the New York Herald's James Gordon Bennett for running "personals." Sample: "Mischievous Lizzy and Mary wish to form the acquaintance of two lively gentlemen . . . They must be of high society; none need answer unless sincere." The tony Saturday Review of Literature still carries such coy invitations as: "Will clever Cleopatra correspond with mature, amiable Antony...
Louis M. Lyons last night praised the Boston Herald-Traveler and the Boston Globe for bringing the Van Waters case and the Plan E controversy to the public's attention. Speaking before a meeting of Nieman Fellows at Littauer Center, he termed the Hearst paper's reporting of the hearings, on the other hand, as "lurid...
...Guardian up 13,000, to 150,000. But not all the faces in Fleet Street were smiling. The News Chronicle, which had also refused sensationalism for better news coverage, had dropped 30,000 readers, chiefly to the Times and the Guardian. Labor's official Daily Herald had slumped about...