Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most vocal anti-administration organ at Brown is the Brown Daily Herald. In its treatment of this student paper, the University has often appeared somewhat repressive. Although there is no outright censorship of the paper, the administration has occasionally taken it upon itself to chastise the student editors for criticizing the University. This can best be seen in two specific cases, one concerning a letter to the editor, and the other involving an editorial...
...letter to the editor was written by David E. Labovitz, news director of the Brown Daily Herald and reputedly a radical. After the deans had spoken to a meeting of students and had left unanswered certain questions on parietal rules, Labovitz wrote his letter requesting that they make their policies and reasons more public. He was then called up to see various deans. "They gave me hell and put a copy of the letter in my record," he said...
...Democratic victories of last September (TIME, Sept. 24) by sweeping up Maine's five electoral votes by an even wider margin than his 1952 victory. He surged ahead in Chicago's heavily Democratic Cook County, picked up a three-to-two lead in pivotal Pennsylvania. The Boston Herald hit the streets with an extra predicting that Ike would carry Massachusetts by 250,000 votes, v. 208,000 in 1952. New York's Daily Mirror went to press at 9:22 with a two-star final bannering: IKE WINS...
Icing on the Cake. One correspondent, the New York Times's Pulitzer Prizewinning Homer Bigart, had a hand in each of the week's big stories. A veteran reporter of battle in Korea and Palestine when he worked for the Herald Tribune, Bigart had been rushed from New York to Vienna to work on the Hungarian revolution. He was filing from Hungary when the Times cabled him to get to Israel. Three days later, Bigart's byline appeared over a story from Tel Aviv. The Times's shift of Bigart was only icing on the cake...
Boston critics were as ecstatic as the audience. The Herald's Rudolph Elie called it "one of those magical revelations that occurs in music once in a generation . . . the most beautiful performance of Beethoven's Third Concerto I ever heard or expect to hear again...