Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city's four newspapers, two had died: Hearst's morning Examiner (circ. 381,037) and Norman Chandler's afternoon Mirror (circ. 301,882). Chandler's big and powerful Times (548,702) was left with a valuable morning monopoly, and Hearst's flamboyant Herald-Express (393,215) had the afternoon field all to itself...
...wealthy empire consisting of holdings in real estate, oil, timber, a paper mill, a vast cattle ranch, an insurance firm and Los Angeles television station KTTV. There were millions available to underpin their new paper in its deliberate campaign to wrest afternoon readership away, from Hearst's Herald-Express, a flamboyant blend of blaring headlines, race results, and juicy sex and crime stories. Self-styled as an independent-Republican daily, the new Mirror contrasted sharply with the stout, dull Times. The Mirror gave the news a bright, if not particularly thorough, play, and after the paper switched to standard...
Small Complaint. The same obstacles confront both surviving Los Angeles papers. But of the two. Hearst is likely to run into more trouble. Although its afternoon paper has been pointedly renamed the Herald-Examiner, this cannot conceal the fact that William Randolph Hearst's cost-conscious successors have expediently submerged their superior Los Angeles possession, the Examiner, into their inferior product. Moreover, as an afternoon paper the Herald-Examiner is in direct competition with the suburban dailies, most of which are published in the afternoon. And it faces grave distribution problems that a morning paper, whose trucks roll...
Last week, with a full-page ad that managed to run in an early edition of the New York Herald Tribune, he perpetrated one of Broadway's most brazen jokes...
Howard Taubman who writes dramatic criticism for the New York Times. But he was Howard Taubman all right-an audio-equipment salesman on Lexington Avenue. Next came a rather handsome likeness of Walter Kerr, not Walter F. Kerr of the Herald Tribune, of course, but Walter J. Kerr, a manufacturers' representative. So on down the line, Merrick's version of Richard Watts, the ever smiling cherub of the New York Post, was a Negro who works as a printing supervisor with the Blue Cross. Merrick explained later that he had selected this particular Richard Watts because "there...