Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After getting her report card, Charlene barricaded herself in the family bomb shelter that her housepainter father recently built off the cellar. Last week she emerged with a bomb for the school board -a scathing letter of protest, which the Manchester Evening Herald promptly published. Her complaint: that "in the jet age, the space age, the atomic age and the age of pushbutton warfare,'' Manchester High makes no distinction between brains and brawn. "Inexcusable stupidity," wrote she. "I fully expect upon returning to M.H.S. to be faced with a course in stone axes and spears, in which...
...larger correspondent network, with staffers in all the outer Hawaiian islands and stringers in Tahiti, Samoa, the Cook Islands and the U.S. Some 12,500 outer islanders also get the Star-Bulletin daily, by air; another 9,904 Hawaiians in Hilo, on Hawaii Island, take the Tribune-Herald, which is owned by the Star-Bulletin...
...then, as the New York Herald Tribune observed, "the excavation subsequently became the city's most conspicuous hole in the ground." (Walter Winchell called it "Zeckendorf's Folly.") A huge hole it was, 35 ft. deep and half a city block long, just northwest of Rockefeller Center. When nothing happened for months, Zeckendorf was repeatedly asked why the delay in construction. One stock answer: during the steel strike he had ordered steel at a special bargain price from Bethlehem, and it would be some time before it was delivered. In fact, no steel was ever ordered. The real...
Praising His Looks. Alsop's colleagues were not far behind. Scripps-Howard Columnist Andrew Tully wrote glowingly of the candidate's heroic character: "This was the Jack Kennedy who saved a PT-boat crew in the Pacific's wartime waters." Smiled the Herald Tribune's Roscoe Drummond: "He is pleasant to know." Walter Lippmann paid tribute to "his youth, his sharp and trained intelligence, and his undoubted popular magnetism." Even the New York Post's sour-tempered Murray Kempton broke down and confessed that the young man from Boston was "an engaging fellow"-thereby leaving...
...also Washington man for Harper's Magazine: "The press was partly responsible for the [Kennedy] landslide. It made Kennedy's nomination inevitable days before it actually was." Earl Mazo, author (Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait) and national political correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, agreed: "Probably he'd have made it anyway, but the press gave him a big psychological boost by presenting his claims so affirmatively...