Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Certainly, as columnists go, old Newsman O'Hara (New York Herald Tribune, New York Daily Mirror, TIME) writes as brightly as most and less fatuously than many. While his Coolidge-era conservatism often placed him not only outside the mainstream of U.S. opinion but outside shouting distance of the river bed as well, it still is a sorry commentary on the press that some editors apparently became disenchanted with him because he supported Goldwater ("It's time the Lawrence Welk people had their say"), criticized the Kennedys ("Instant Adamses"), and loftily dismissed President Johnson ("an uninspiring, uninspired...
Mean Appearance. Taking grim stock of the situation, Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney wrote an eloquent Page One indictment of the unions and a last-minute plea for cooperation. "In the past," he said, "management's side has always been modestly withheld for fear of offending the negotiators and labor has had its say effectively so that we always appeared either mean or incompetent and sometimes both." Whitney conceded that the publishers had much to answer for in the past. But the present problem, he went on, is "here and now when we are trying to make...
Lively Companion. "I bought the Herald Tribune eight years ago because I believe deeply in the value of articulate, intelligent discussion of our world," wrote Whitney, almost as if he were expecting the imminent demise of his paper. "I wanted it to continue to be what I always thought it was: a lively companion to a wide circle of friends. I did not buy it to make myself wealthy or famous or powerful. You cannot buy the traditions and principles of this newspaper; you can only lend them a hand toward survival. That effort has not been completely successful...
Flash Floods. "I have another one here from Doug Kiker, a Herald Tribune reporter who works hard," continued Fleming. "He wrote a pre-Easter story out of San Antonio: 'President Johnson is in a foul mood this Easter Sunday, apparent for all to see.' " But Johnson was on the L.B.J. ranch. "Kiker saw the President from 78 miles away. He has better eyes than I have. And stronger perception too." Among his other complaints, Fleming cited an Associated Press story out of Saigon by Malcolm Browne, who stated that the President had ordered the military...
...freehanded spender with class, Beebe gives an account of Boston's Mrs. Jack Gardner's paying Paderewski $3,000 to play at teatime for an elderly friend and herself on condition that he remain concealed behind a screen. Or James Gordon Bennett, owner of the New York Herald, who bought a restaurant in Monte Carlo one day because he could not get a seat by the window, cleared the restaurant of customers, lunched at leisure and then gave a waiter the deed to the place...