Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grinder) was no disgruntled aspirant, but one of the Pulitzer Prize's preliminary pickers. He was a member of a nominating jury to weed out contenders for the $500 prize for international telegraphic reporting. Disregarding the jury's verdict (which recommended a prize to the New York Herald Tribune's Arch Steele), the committee handed the prize to roly-poly Eddy Gilmore, inoffensive Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press (TIME, Aug. 12).* It was the A.P.'s eleventh Pulitzer Prize. And an award to Brooks Atkinson (for a fine series of dispatches on Russia...
...Leading U.S. quality papers by Camrose standards: the New York Times (circ. 555,932 daily, 1,091,183 Sunday); the New York Herald Tribune (circ. 352,154 daily, 729,363 Sunday...
...London Daily Herald, Labor's champion, found an excuse for its behavior: "Any Government which regards Parliament as a working machine and not as a mere talking shop must clearly insure . . . thai, the necessary business must go through. Otherwise it would be possible for any disgruntled minority in Parliament to obstruct indefinitely the will of the majority. And that would be the negation of democratic government." Perhaps the Daily Herald had forgotten that Labor's parliamentary majority was elected by less than 50% of Britain's voters...
Last week, after his first postwar leading part (as Shakespeare's penn'orth king, Richard II), Alec had London's dour critics giddily tapping their umbrellas. The Daily Herald: "This is Shakespeare done in a way that gives luster to the English theater. . . ." The Daily Telegraph: ". . . Admirable economy . . . not a touch nor a tone seems wrong." The consensus: Alec Guinness is the most versatile new actor to appear on the British stage since...
First of the rather abashed group of judges to arrive was Mr. Lawrence Dame, art critic of the Boston Herald and by the time the second member of the panel, an editor of the CRIMSON, had been led to the table, Mr. Dane was adequately ensconced behind a glass of dry sherry and an Avocado salad. The Crimeditor ordered "some Scotch, never mind the food...