Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most critics were ecstatic. "Marvelous," said the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson. "If Mark Twain could have collaborated with Vachel Lindsay, they might have devised a rhythmic lark like The Music Man, which is as American as apple pie and a Fourth of July oration." Cheered the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "The brightest, breeziest, most winning new musical to come along since My Fair Lady enchanted us all. [It's] a wow. A nice...
...cost of repair was to run to at least ?11,000-and that, as every sensible Londoner knew, would be only the beginning. "So much," fumed the Morning Herald on June 21, 1783, "has this extraordinary edifice cost the country-for one moiety of which sum, a much better dwelling might have been purchased." But in spite of all the fuss, the British went through with the "great repair," just as they had done before and were to do time and time again. For more than 200 years the house, now known as No. 10 Downing Street, has been...
...coming "end of the world": "In this atomic age," said Dr. Francis D. Nichol, editor of the Adventists' Review and Herald, "we hear frightened scientists and many others beginning to use a phrase that formerly appeared to be the monopoly of Adventist preachers...
...World. But as the '20s drew on, both the World and Swope got weary. Under Pulitzer's sons Ralph and Herbert, the World gradually lost ground to the Times and the Herald Tribune. In 1929 Swope finally quit. Two years later, Pulitzer's sons broke their father's will, which stipulated that the World should never be sold, turned over the paper to Scripps-Howard for $5,000,000. (The name survives as the New York World-Telegram...
Born. To Marguerite Higgins, 37, Pulitzer prizewinning correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, and Lieut. General William E. Hall, U.S.A.F., 50, commander of the Continental Air Command: their first son, second child; in Washington, D.C. Name: Lawrence Shawn. Weight...