Word: heralds
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...Canada -in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto- each headed by a bureau chief, and 24 local correspondents (called "string correspondents" or "stringers") in as many cities scattered throughout the Dominion. Each is a reporter or editor for a local newspaper like the Winnipeg (Manitoba) Tribune, the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Herald, or the Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) Blade. During the last six months the news file from Canada ran to more than a million words...
...Bill Nichols changed his formula a bit. He dropped Emily Post (who went over to the American Weekly) for a livelier "Everybody's Etiquette" with such guest lecturers as John Kieran (etiquette for birdwatchers and motorists). And for eager eaters, he signed up Clementine Paddleford, the New York Herald Tribune's food expert...
...Acres of Flesh. As This Week was a supplement in such family journals as the New York Herald Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer and 22 others, Nichols thought it would pay "to be decent." Said he: "I'm neither pious nor preachy but my first principle is success and [decency] has paid off in success. You can bore a mass audience to death with acres of flesh. Why did burlesque...
Washington could hardly wait for the trial of Countess Felicia Gizycka's suit to break the will of her mother, Publisher Eleanor Patterson of the Washington Times-Herald (TIME, Sept. 27). It promised to rattle many a family skeleton. But one afternoon last week just twelve days before the trial date, attorneys for the Countess summoned newsmen. They were handed an announcement of an agreement by all parties to settle out of court...
...wrangling. Countess Gizycka did not relish the unsavory process of trying to prove that her mother had not been of sound mind when she willed the paper to her top men. Under reported terms of the settlement Cissy Patterson's daughter will get no share of the Times-Herald, but she will get the mother's Long Island home and other personal property left her under the will. She had also been willed a $25,000 annual income. Instead, she will take a tax-paid lump sum of around $400,000. Otherwise, as her attorneys had already told...