Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bring in bumper crops of rice, sweet potatoes and cotton. By 6:30 in the morning the clean-swept streets of the teeming cities resound to the chanting of millions of voices as clerks, factory hands and bureaucrats, all clad in blue boiler suits, perform the mass calisthenics that herald the beginning of another ten-to twelve-hour working...
...unimaginative Bob Menzies himself has never been personally popular. His chronic testiness ("He must be drunk or paid to come here as a pest," he angrily shouted at a heckler) has not helped him much. When his car was spattered with eggs in Sydney, even the usually progovernment Melbourne Herald blandly refused to remonstrate. "At election time," it said, "it is permissible to be cynical. Indeed it is almost obligatory...
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, 28, comes from a socialite Republican family (the late Manhattan Financier John V. Bouvier III), got a socialite's education, was inquiring photographer for the Washington Post and Times-Herald when she met Jack Kennedy "over the asparagus" at a dinner party in 1951. They were married at a big Newport blowout (700 guests) in September 1953, have an infant daughter. Although she traveled with her husband during the last campaign ("Some days we would shake 2,500 to 3,000 hands"), Jackie tried to avoid making speeches, prefers a homebody's life...
...problem of the metropolitan press is not television, argued J. Edward Murray, managing editor of the afternoon Los Angeles Mirror News, but a rising competition for both readership and advertising from the suburban press. ¶ From a surprising source-Jack Patterson, circulation manager of the Washington Post and Times Herald-came an indictment of editorial vulnerability to pressure from advertisers. He cited the case of "one of the nation's largest newspapers" whose publisher, fielding an advertiser's request that a certain story be dropped, killed the story promptly. "If this happened on the Post," said Patterson...
...Hollywood to help, with the movie version of her bestsellingVeport on sex in the white-collar jungle, The Best of Everything (TIME, Sept. 15), 26-year-old Author Rona Jaffe mused about the ashen taste of success. "You dream all your life of being famous," she told New York Herald Tribune Reporter Joe Hyams, "because you think it will solve all your problems. What happens is you meet a lot of fascinating men, as you hoped you would, but just as many of them are married as the dull men you knew when you were obscure...