Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...park employees, prepared to seal off sites with no-trespassing signs. At about that point, a lot of Birmingham's citizens, not necessarily integrationists, decided that they liked their public facilities too much to give them up. "Why not keep the parks open," asked the segregationist Birmingham Post Herald, "and give our people a chance to see whether they can continue to operate without trouble...
Cream in Stone. Throughout his 14-year (1940-54) "professional honeymoon" as New York Herald Tribune music critic, Thomson campaigned for the performance of modern works and unfamiliar ancient ones, carped at the heavy concert ration of German, Italian and Slavic music, and set about with gusto to deflate what he thought were undeserved reputations. Toscanini he criticized as a practitioner of the "Wow Technique," by which he meant "the theatrical technique of whipping up something in a way to provoke applause automatically." Strauss's Salome, he wrote, was "like modernistic sculpture made of cheap wood, glass, rocks, cinders...
...there's a new way to edit a serious morning paper,'' proclaimed the New York Herald Tribune in full-page ads last week. To make its point, the Trib reproduced a recent front page, the novelty of which had been carefully ringed by an editor's soft black pencil (see cut). The page included a two-column-wide replay of the day's news, entitled "In the News This Morning," plus a double-barreled report on the Congo: side by side appeared two versions of Congolese developments, one headed "The Problem " the other "The Solution...
What the ad was also designed to demonstrate was that the New York Herald Tribune is emphatically succeeding in its effort to avoid looking, sounding or acting like the only other serious morning paper in Manhattan's field of four, the Times. Under a new editor, former Newsweek Editor John Denson, and backed by the drive and millions of John Hay Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the Trib is steering a bold matutinal course. In a city that has more morning papers than it needs or wants, the Trib is trying...
...Detroit Free Press refused to accept the official line that Bowles had not been downgraded, said flatly that "Bowles was fired because he didn't belong and wouldn't quit"; the Chicago Daily News called him "a congenital chatterbox" and a "moony gabbler." Sneered the Miami Herald: "Perhaps now that Mr. Bowles has been shifted out of the top of the department, the public, too, can learn what our foreign policy...