Word: heralds
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...their differences. About all they accomplished was to agree vaguely to strive for better communication between the unions and to meet again this month. Meanwhile, the Guild unit at the New York Times has voted to strike if a "satisfactory" contract has not been reached by Sept. 12; the Herald Tribune and Journal-American Guildsmen have also voted to strike but have not set a date...
Writing with the authority of long service as a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and The New Yorker magazine, Christopher Rand made no secret of his disapproval of the performance of his colleagues. While watching the overseas press corps cover a war in Asia, Rand became convinced that "the crusading or bellicose tradition of U.S. journalism goes badly with foreign reporting." On their foreign beat, he wrote, the crusaders seemed "more eager to put on an act than to right wrongs. Or perhaps they had fallen into mere hostility for its own sake. It seemed...
...West Pointer ('36), Clifton took leave shortly after graduation, worked as a cub reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. He decided to become a career newsman, was on his way to Army headquarters in New York with his resignation when he saw a military parade on Fifth Avenue led by an old West Point friend. Clifton tore up the resignation, stayed in the Army for 29 more years. In Italy, during World War II, Artilleryman Clifton's huge 240-mm. howitzers plastered Cassino with 250,000 shells in 120 days, and Clifton won the Legion of Merit...
...Viet Nam policy was "not a consensus of our people ... it is a consensus among the State Department, Defense Department, Central Intelligence Agency and the White House staff." College professors and students cried out that the U.S. should abandon Viet Nam entirely, that Johnson was a warmonger. New York Herald Tribune Columnist Joseph Alsop complained about Lyndon's close personal scrutiny of the details of war: "The President is asking for very bad trouble by trying to act as both field marshal and top sergeant in a war halfway 'round the world, in a country he does...
Newspaper editors generally pride themselves on letting a columnist say what he pleases, but last week Walter Lippmann said more than the editors of the New York Herald Tribune had bargained for. Writing once again from his own "neoisolationist" viewpoint, Lippmann declared: "My own view is that the conception of ourselves as the policeman of mankind is a dangerous form of selfdelusion. It is dangerous to profess and pretend that we can be the policeman of the world. How many more Dominican Republics can the U.S. police in this hemisphere? How many Viet Nams can the U.S defend in Asia...