Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roads near her Larchmont home "to escape housework, interruptions from the kids and television." But last week Writer Kerr had to do her writing at home-before the TV-because she had been asked to take vacationing Critic John Crosby's caustic TV corner in the New York Herald Tribune (for which her husband, Walter Kerr, is drama critic). She made it clear at the offset that she was not qualified to talk about TV at all, "but like so many unqualified people," she had opinions. One of them was about commercials: "What disturbs me is when, instead...
Democracy at Work. In Miami, the Herald, clarifying to readers the voting levers and an oddly phrased resolution on rezoning a strip of the beach front, pointed out that if they were FOR it, they should pull the lever AGAINST, and if AGAINST...
...helped author the amendment that weakened the bill by requiring jury trials in contempt cases. The New York Times, which had scored the jury trial amendment a few days before, urged the Senate to pass the weak bill as the best possible. So did ardently pro-Ike New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond. So did the civil-righteous Washington Post and Times Herald: famed Post Cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock), who is forever lampooning Eisenhower for indecisiveness, did an astonishing turnabout to sketch an impulsive Ike pointing a revolver at a fair Miss Civil Rights...
...faced, butcher-fisted Jim Richardson seemed by talent and temperament to have been a natural-born Hearst-man, he also had the luck to land in Los Angeles in the headiest heyday of the city and of Hearst newspapering. Hired at 19 by Hearst's old Los Angeles Herald (for $7.50 a week). Canadian-born Richardson shrewdly plied the creed he learned as a cub on the old Winnipeg Telegram: "Walk like a newspaperman...
...pattern that was varied by the New York Herald Tribune's Business Editor Donald I. Rogers, who was paid by General Motors to introduce its Buick commercial on TV during the Patterson-Jackson fight...