Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprising to me that Mr. Kennedy didn't just go ahead and call the New York Herald Tribune [June 8] a "gigantic corporation" and . . . well, you know the rest. MICHAEL NICHOLSON Pittsburgh
There was little doubt, even in the beginning, that Rockefeller was looking far beyond the statehouse in Albany. His inaugural address, which did not even mention the State of New York until page 4, moved New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond to remark that it "could as well have been delivered from the steps of the Capitol in Washington." After only six months as Governor-and countless denials that he was interested in anything beyond Albany-Rockefeller admitted publicly that he had the presidential bug. He undertook a series of whirlwind speaking tours to sample political sentiment, began trying...
...explanation, Salinger put out several-each one contradicting the one before. After all, said Salinger, the boss "can read just so many papers. We get five New York newspapers now,* and that gives us quite a spread of opinion. In fact, the people around here have been reading the Herald Tribune less and less." Was the President sore at the Trib? Well, no, said Salinger. Then he noticed that no one seemed to believe...
...were to cancel subscriptions to all the papers who were opposed to the Administration, it would be kind of light reading around here." Well then, he was asked, why did Kennedy blow his top? "I think the culmination came," Salinger went on, "with the disclosure that the Herald Tribune completely ignored the stockpiling investigation." He was referring to a leftover Eisenhower Administration scandal, in which a copper company got a $6,000,000 windfall. Salinger was wrong, argued Trib Reporter David Wise. The Trib had indeed missed early editions with the story, but finally carried it-in the second section...
...Eastern seaboard the Tribune is the paper everyone is talking about." The Trib's Paris columnist, Art Buchwald, took it nicely from there. Reporting that he had a letter from a little girl in Washington whose three-year-old friend Caroline told her there was no New York Herald Tribune, Buchwald wrote a jolly "Yes, Virginia" reply sprinkled with needles: "Not believe in the Herald Tribune? It's like saying you don't believe in Billie Sol Estes or Pecos, Texas...