Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What major pieces must New York's industrious concertgoers hear oftenest? Last week, the Herald Tribune's statistical-minded Music Editor Francis D. Perkins totted up his annual reckoning of what was played in concert halls during the season. For the second straight year, Chopin's Ballade in G Minor won the prize. In 225 piano recitals, it had been played, for better or worse, in more than one out of ten. Runner-up: Beethoven's "Appassionata" sonata...
...said no so often that the poll would probably not start the G.O.P. drums rolling for him at Philadelphia. But to Republicans, the New York Herald Tribune pointed the poll's warning: "What is proved is that an overwhelming majority of ... voters are united in wanting the ablest leadership they can conceive . . . This Republican newspaper asks only that the Philadelphia convention rise to its opportunity and name .the strongest candidate who is available." The key word was the word "available...
...Trib, which had shouted the loudest against the plan, accusingly ticked off a list of beneficiaries, including the New York Times and Herald Tribune, LIFE, TIME, Newsweek and Reader's Digest (all of which publish foreign editions) and the A.P., U.P. and I.N.S...
...Washington, Cissie Patterson's Times-Herald, little cousin of the Trib, picked up the story. When Mississippi's John Rankin read it, he brayed to the House that "if it is true, it certainly is an outrage and . . . Congress should investigate it, and should...
...typical case was that of the European edition of the Herald Tribune. Last winter, it was forced to cut its circulation in Germany to under 5,000. It was unwilling to continue piling up marks which it could not exchange for other currencies or spend in Germany. The Paris Trib could sell 50,000 more copies a day to Germans and Austrians "who are hungry for news of the U.S." But to meet this demand, it would have to be able to trade $462,000 a year worth of blocked marks for dollars...