Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio flashed the convention news to most of the country, but radio plainly had a back seat: network telecasts were on the air for 40 hrs. 20 min. more than network broadcasts. And most televiewers agreed (including a vice president of a rival network) with the New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby that "LIFE and NBC . . . easily ran off with the honors, both in programs and in a technical sense...
Despite the favoring nor'easter, Henry Taylor was worried. He called La Guardia Airport, got a discouraging weather report : the seas would get glassy calm near Bermuda. Taylor hitchhiked a ride on the New York Herald Tribune's plane that circled out over the Atlantic to cover the race. Through the mist and rain he spied three sails-but no sign of Baruna...
...Bread. Most newsmen, sitting at planked tables beside and behind the rostrum, shared the disadvantage point that made Rebecca West "more familiar with the contours which members of the Republican Party present to the world behind them than in front" (the New York Herald Tribune headlined her piece: BRITISH OBSERVER Is IMPRESSED MOST BY STASSEN'S FOLLOWING...
...Among others on Johnson's list: the New York Times and Herald Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Louisville Courier-Journal...
...London audience felt all right-but pain, not pleasure. Said one listener after the concert: "It sounded like they were always tuning up." And the critics gave the First a glacial reception. Said the Daily Herald: "Except at the dentist's, I don't remember a longer 35 minutes." The Times, which didn't like it at all, summed up in deadpan fashion: "It contained some loud and soft, quick and slow sounds." The Daily Mail's advice: "the cobbler should stick to his last...