Word: heralds
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What George Polk (see above) and every other Balkan correspondent yearned to do, the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart up & did. He found and interviewed Greek guerrilla General Markos in his Grammos Mountain stronghold. This week, after sitting on it for more than a fortnight (presumably to avoid competing with convention news), the Trib ran his interview as a four-part series. It tingled with some of the cloak-&-dagger thrills of an Eric Ambler novel...
Repercussions started popping almost immediately. From Johannesburg came an excited statement from a group of Anglican churchmen denouncing such "secret negotiations." In London, the Catholic Herald deplored the "rumor" that Anglicans "may be seeking spiritual reunion" with the Roman Catholic Church. If the letters were in fact diplomatic feelers, said the Herald, they were "not regarded in that light by the Vatican...
Joseph Stalin, it appeared (not dialectics), was really calling the pitch in Soviet music. New York Herald Tribune Musicritic Virgil Thomson quoted an ex-violinist of the Moscow State Symphony: "Anyone acquainted with the . . . 'musical mixed salad' . . . tastes of Stalin will recognize a remarkable similarity between his personal predilections and the officially sponsored concepts." What was it like to play for the boss? "If he likes a performance, he smiles . . . When a performance does not please him, [he] turns his back . . . There can be no greater blow...
Some examples of World Video's doings: Ilka Chase narrating a "Cook's Tour" of Paris' haute cuisine; the editors of Field &Stream collaborating on a Field & Stream of the Air; a five-year contract with the New York Herald Tribune for a weekly background of the news, a spot newscast backed up by canned shots of locales and personalities; contracts with Elia Kazan and Cheryl Crawford for their Actors Studio, and with Folksinger Alan Lomax, Mystifier Joseph Dunninger...
...little speech, Correspondent Hugh Hessell Tiltman of the London Daily Herald was brutally frank. "I must sound a warning to you Japanese," he told the Nagoya Chamber of Commerce. "The only yardstick by which you measure world reaction towards yourselves is the extremely friendly attitude of the occupation personnel, but there are other places in the world where people are by no means inclined to forget so soon what has happened. I've just come back from Malaya and I must say it'll be some time before Japanese can safely do business there...