Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of story that Eleanor Medill Patterson, who liked her news on the dramatic side, would have enjoyed telling-on someone else. Her death had plunged her Washington Times-Herald and the seven employees to whom she left it, into a confusing legal tangle, with overtones of violence...
...loan, the . . . executives who inherited the paper . . . could properly enter a claim against the rest of the estate." Still missing were Porter's voluminous personal papers, which Countess Felicia Gizycka, Cissy's daughter, hoped to use in her fight to break her mother's will. Times-Herald staffers were beginning to feel like characters in a whodunit. Last week they told of a circulation hustler who was a little confused about the countesses, ex-countesses and other celebrities in the fight over the will. In a crowded elevator he saw a Times-Herald banner headline: COUNT BERNADOTTE...
Pundit Walter Lippmann, who sometimes writes like a pellucid angel, sometimes like poor Poll, got his claws tangled with his beak last week in the New York Herald Tribune: "It was never possible, we must I believe suppose, that we could induce the Russians to lift the blockade unless...
While the police hesitated, Columnist Drew Pearson, ex-husband of the countess, phoned from Washington to urge them to hang on to Porter's things. The Times-Herald won out. Officers sealed the bags and one of the newsmen took them back to Washington...
...week's end, West Virginia state police reopened the Porter case, at the countess' request, and the courts were asked to seize Porter's records. Meanwhile Washington had another death to gossip about. Elizabeth Kenney Hynes, 50-year-old society editor of the Times-Herald, was found dead in her Georgetown home. Detectives found a bottle of sleeping tablets nearby, and her brother told the Washington Post that she had been despondent because Cissie Patterson had not kept a promise to "clear the mortgage" on her house. A preliminary autopsy report showed, however, that she died...