Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many in Britain who scream "McCarthyism" at the suggestion that scientists or civil servants should be more closely screened. This month, in the wake of two other flagrant espionage cases, a government committee investigating security procedures recommended drastic reforms. Its findings stirred angry protests against what the Laborite Daily Herald called "spy mania." If Maclean and Burgess do return to Britain and come to trial, the full story of their defection should persuade the public that there have been occasions when pansies and pinks were presumed to be patriots...
...others: official receptions for the Supreme Court, the Vice President and the Speaker, the Diplomatic Corps, the Cabinet, and the Military. *Walter Terry, the New York Herald Tribune's dance critic, invited to cover the performance, recalled that a toe dancer named Mile. Celeste had danced en pointe for an enchanted Andrew Jackson in the Cabinet Room in 1836 and had become a political cause celebre (an anti-Jackson cartoon implying frivolity in high places was titled "The Celeste-al Cabinet''). Four years later, the sensational Fanny Elssler, the great European ballerina, was so popular in Washington...
...preferred stock, and its deficit has climbed alarmingly: $2.4 million in 1959, nearly $6.5 million in 1960. To reduce costs, Hearst officers have ruthlessly winnowed its newspaper ranks by merger or sale, most recently in Los Angeles, when Hearst's morning Examiner vanished into its afternoon paper, the Herald-Express (TIME, Jan. 12). The annual report also warned stockholders to expect a serious loss in the first quarter of this year-partly because of "heavy expenses" incurred in the Los Angeles merger...
...sense of history, maturing during seven years as a TIME writer, prompted him three years ago to start a magazine of his own. He rounded up $1,000,000 worth of support, gathered a staff from TIME (three reporter-writers) and the New York daily press (the Times, Herald Tribune, Post and Wall Street Journal...
...Crawford's letter ("We've always wanted to keep this great work in Britain"), and reduced its price to a mere ?800,000. If this sum is not raised, however, the drawing will go on the block after all. "A pretty stiff bargain," sniffed the Daily Herald, but then went on to decry the whole by-jingo fuss: "There is something slightly ridiculous about the present outburst of patriotic excitement to retain this Italian drawing, for the national habit is to get art on the cheap." The Herald might have added that the public's concern...