Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invariably tries to browbeat the press, claims he once persuaded the New York World-Telegram to delete an unfavorable section from a review. Critics, with the rarest of exceptions, he denounces as uncreative "hacks." Merrick particularly professes to despise Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune (Kerr reacts, says Merrick, only when his wife Jean nudges him), John McCarten of The New Yorker (whom he banned from his last opening), Louis Kronenberger of TIME, and the New York Times's Howard Taubman-who, says Merrick grinning at his own maliciousness, "needs vocational guidance." Two weeks ago, he tried...
...Kennedy task-force recession report and was reassured: "We have the impression that the New Frontier is to be approached warily." The Reporter magazine called for the spur: "The men in the new Administration perforce have to be men of action." Rowland Evans Jr. of the New York Herald Tribune's Washington bureau filed a weather forecast on Kennedy's relations with Congress: "Partly cloudy, with variable winds...
...Somehow, we can't picture Kennedy being as dumb and deceitful as that." When President Eisenhower severed relations with Cuba, the Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier found Kennedy's silence "cause for apprehension," the Christian Science Monitor's William Stringer found it "traditional behavior," and the Boston Herald found it reprehensible: "An endorsement by him of the President's Cuban stand would have done him no harm and would have greatly strengthened the country's position...
Died. Isabel M. Paterson, 75, fictional chronicler of society (Never Ask the End, The Golden Vanity) and longtime pungent critic and columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, who liked new styles in writing but detested new styles in politics enough to refuse social security benefits after tearing up her card; of a heart attack; in Montclair...
...Layman Charles P. Taft (brother of the late Senator) joins TIME and its Dec. 12 cover subject, Jesuit John Courtney Murray, in the "dialogue" of church-state separation (see LETTERS), an engrossing issue that last week was examined by Jewish Theological Seminary Chancellor Louis Finkelstein, Baptist Minister and Christian Herald Editor Daniel A. Poling and Socialist (and onetime Presbyterian Minister) Norman Thomas...