Word: heralds
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...when he bought Syracuse's two evening papers, the Herald and the Journal, both were losing money?$450,000 the year before. Overnight, Newhouse changed the loss to profit. To get full city coverage, Syracuse advertisers had been compelled to buy space in both evening papers, at a retail rate of 10^ a line in each. Newhouse merged the two papers, retaining their best individual features. Then he raised the Her aid-Journal's retail ad rate to 13¢ a line. Merchants responded to the bargain, and retail ad sales rose nearly $1,000,000 the first year...
Culligan's appointment was greeted with general good will. The New York Herald Tribune wished him luck in an editorial, and the Associated Press called him "dynamic and picturesque." Said his predecessor, ex-President Robert E. MacNeal: "Don't worry about me, worry about my company." But Culligan was not about to worry. His long-term $120,000-a- year contract is rich with fringe benefits and he pronounces himself ready to work for every penny. "One of the legendary things they say about me is this capacity for work I have," he said. "If I work...
...speech was "off the record." but Senator Barry Goldwater got hold of a copy and liked it so much that fortnight ago he read it into the Congressional Record. "Thought-provoking," the Arizona Republican told his colleagues, and indeed it was; this was New York Herald Tribune Financial Editor Donald I. Rogers scolding businessmen for advertising in such "liberal" publications as the New York Times...
...might business set its conscience straight? "The influential conservative New York papers, the Herald Tribune and the World-Telegram and Sun get very sparse pickings indeed from the American business community which they support so effectively in their editorial policies." Rogers argued. "Is it so foolish to put your money into the hands of your friends rather than your enemies...
...were Rogers' Herald Trib bosses pleased with his performance. He had not been sent to the Roundtable to peddle ads; his ideas, the Trib hastened to add, were strictly his own. The Trib was particularly annoyed at being pictured as the Poor Little Match Girl of New York journalism by its own financial editor: "Last month was our biggest June yet," said Editor John Denson. In an editorial page box which complained that the Times had struck a low blow merely by printing most of Rogers' now on-the-record speech, the Trib was moved to brief apology...