Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call came from no less a man than Lieut. General Nguyen Khanh, and Saigon's prettiest Western correspondent hopped a cab to the general's elegant town house on the Saigon River. There the New York Herald Tribune's Beverly Deepe, 29, found Khanh and his wife decorating their patio. They were getting ready for a petite danse, explained the general with a smile. Then he led the visitor into his study, where they talked for more than half an hour. "It was so fantastic," said Beverly later of what the general told her, "I didn...
...been limping since. At Bienhoa Airbase, Hope tried one of his oldest one-liners, explaining to troops why he had come to Viet Nam. "The Defense Department has tried everything else," he said, "so why not me?" Why not, indeed? A headline last week in the New York Herald Tribune said HOPE IN VIET AS GENERALS BACK OFF. The article that went with it had nothing to do with Bob Hope, but the headline was right either way you read...
...gags and cartoons, of many enduring legends. Its 40-year-old Thanksgiving Day parade - a two-mile panoply of celebrities, bands, six-story-tall balloons and pneumatic majorettes -is yearly watched by a million New Yorkers and a TV audience of 60 million. For visitors to New York, its Herald Square store is as much of a tourist attraction as the Empire State Building...
...Observatory Hill. Barbra Streisand, Doris Day and George Burns stuck to traditional toys, trees and reindeer, avoided writer's cramp by having their signatures engraved within. Playwright Edward Albee, who selected a 16th century woodcut, signed his cards by hand, as did New York Herald Tribune Publisher John H. Whitney, Newsman Chet Huntley and Actress Joan Crawford. Hedda Hopper was even more personal about it all, sent cards bearing her own portrait. Mother Jolie Gabor sent photographs of herself and her daughters, included a lengthy message: "Come and have a glass of champagne with me at my fabulous pearl...
This orthodoxy receives its most complete exposition in Robert J. Donovan's The Future of the Republican Party, which is just what you would expect from a former head of the New York Herald Tribune's Washington bureau. It is fact-filled, forceful, and facile. But Donovan, even midst his forecasts of resurgence from the depths, recognizes grave flaws in the Party...