Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson, for fairly obvious reasons, can be a lot more interesting than something like the Moscow University Herald (which, one hazards, regarded 600 annual purges as regrettable faux par that had no place in a sober chronicle of the passing days). Yes, yes, the Crimson is much more than this; as it is easy to see, it is no official organ for anything...
...Governments, it circulates (at $60 a year) to a blue-chip clientele of 2,500 bankers, economists and securities dealers, who consider it must reading. In recent years she has had effective assistance in this from Joseph Slevin, who also writes finance from Washington for the New York Herald Tribune...
Columnist Porter maintains a political neutrality so absolute that few of her readers realize she was a fervent Kennedy fan. She hustles unashamedly for more papers. On one visit to Dallas, she went up to Times Herald Executive Editor Felix McKnight, tore a dollar bill in two and gave him half. Recalls McKnight: "She said to me, 'I'll give you the other half when you take my column...
...distance from Mexico, Mo. to New York City is 1,070 road miles. The difference between the Mexico evening Ledger and the New York Herald Tribune is even greater. Many young newsmen have successfully made the jump between such small towns as Mexico and the Big City. But in the summer of 1959, Robert Mitchell White II, the Ledger's crewcut coeditor and copublisher, decided to make the trip-at top level. He accepted the positions of president and editor of the Herald Tribune...
...hurriedly decided to stop the presses for almost three hours while Reston clattered out a new version of the latest developments. "Our obligation was to produce a historical document," said Reston. The Times move abruptly halted printing 279,000 papers, causing a temporary vacuum happily filled by the opposition Herald Tribune, which sold more papers that morning (500,000) than it had in years. By 7:17 a.m. the Times was safely back and square with history. The new headline: KENNEDY IS APPARENT VICTOR...