Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milburn P. Akers, executive editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, C. A. Knight, editor of the charlotte, N.C., Observer, and Dwight E. Sargent, editorial page editor of the Portland, Me., Press Herald and Evening Express, were named...
...among anthropologists over the fall of the Piltdown man (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953). "Our criticisms have given us no satisfaction," wrote Price's accusers. Harry Price himself, having died in 1948, was beyond making any rebuttal, unless by further spiritual manifestation. The whole business, mourned the Glasgow Herald, "is a melancholy proof of human frailty...
Religion Editor Adon Taft of the Miami Herald (circ. 225,169) is an earnest Baptist who goes to church twice every Sunday-once to worship, and once to report on a new congregation in his column, "A Stranger in Church." Last week, obeying his instincts as both believer and newsman, Taft was working to expose the tent-show evangelism of a faith healer...
...first night Taft attended the tent show of the Rev. Jack Coe of Dallas, who has been drawing 6,000 Miamians nightly, he saw no healing efforts, wrote a tolerantly favorable story. But the next night he witnessed some "cures"-and started digging. On the Herald's front page he showed that there had been no real changes in the physical conditions of Miamians the revivalist had claimed to cure. Taft found, for example, that a crippled woman who had ostentatiously flung aside a pair of crutches had never ordinarily used them. Taft also showed that Coe stood...
...King" ("Hit the line for Harvard ..."). This legislator hoped someone would write new words to "The Gridiron King," much as the State of Maryland had adapted the old German Christmas carol "O Tannenbaum" to its own purposes. This suggestion, however, evoked sharp editorial response from the ever-watchful Boston Herald: "Leave the songs to the birds and Tin-Pan Alley." The Herald's plan, however, does not appear to be the most practical solution. Massachusetts' Official State Bird is, of course, the chickadee...