Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that morning, and the stunt was the latest step in Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger's campaign to make the best U.S. daily a truly national newspaper. The first day's shipment to Los Angeles newsstands (150 copies) sold out by noon; next day the New York Herald Tribune, anxious not to be outpromoted, followed suit...
...months Hearst's Chicago Herald-American had dawdled along in a well-worn rut. Next to Bertie McCormick's Tribune, it had the biggest circulation in town and was holding it. But the Herald's news coverage had gone dull after the whoopdedoo of the Heirens murder case. Sex crimes got big headlines now & again, but the news lacked the red-and-saffron splashes of rich detail that had won the Herald its readers...
...escape the eye of William Randolph Hearst, who seldom waits for a paper to get into trouble before jacking it up. A fortnight ago, in the wake of the merger of the tabloid Chicago Times with Marshall Field's Sun (TIME, Aug. 4), a shakeup hit the Herald's top brass. Chicago-trained, cigar-chomping George Ashley De Witt came on from Washington as executive editor-the job once held by loud Lou Ruppel, who got in bad with the Chief by branding Chicago "Dirty Shirt Town." Drawling Lou Shainmark came back from the Washington bureau...
...wars slipped into town. Ruddy, trumpet-voiced Walter Howey, prototype of the managing editor in The Front Page, had temporarily dropped his regular chores (supervising Hearst's two Boston tabloids with one hand and the American Weekly with the other) to help raise the steam pressure in the Herald-American's boilers...
Howey would say not a word about what was afoot at the Herald. "Just watch the paper, that's all," said Shainmark. Last week it was worth watching once more; the front page looked like the result of an explosion in a type foundry...